ACM Conversations - Mei Mei Rado

Thu, 14 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm UTC+08:00

1 Empress Place, Singapore, Singapore 179555 | Singapore

ACM (Asian Civilisations Museum)
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ACM Conversations - Mei Mei Rado
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๐…๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐”๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‘๐ž๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐ 
๐“๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐’๐ค๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐–๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ง ๐…๐š๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐จ๐ง
๐Œ๐ž๐ข ๐Œ๐ž๐ข ๐‘๐š๐๐จ

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chinese garments โ€“ especially pleated silk skirts worn by Han Chinese women โ€“ found new life in Europe and the US. These richly decorated textiles were often taken apart, adapted, and refashioned into Western-style clothing.
This talk traces the trajectories of refashioned Chinese skirts, exploring their history in China, the international trade in second-hand Chinese textiles, the historical practice of reusing and modifying garments in Europe and the US, and chinoiserie in fashion. Rather than looking at these hybrid garments as โ€œinauthenticโ€ or โ€œcompromisedโ€ objects, Mei Mei Rado invites us to consider how their transformations activated a new fashion cycle in a different cultural context โ€“ one that infused new lives and meanings into cast-out items from another culture.

๐ด๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘†๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘Ÿ
๐Œ๐ž๐ข ๐Œ๐ž๐ข ๐‘๐š๐๐จ is Assistant Professor of Textiles, Dress, and Decorative Arts at Bard Graduate Center. Previously she was Associate Curator of Costume and Textiles at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and had held curatorial and research positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, and the Palace Museum. Her research focuses on Chinese and French textiles and dress from the eighteen to early twentieth century. She is the author of ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ธ๐‘š๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘’โ€™๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ค ๐ถ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž: ๐ถ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ -๐ถ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘‡๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘„๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก (2025).

๐ด๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ
๐‹๐จ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐‹๐ฎ๐ข is curator of Chinese art at the Asian Civilisations Museum. Her research interests include East Asian ceramics, textiles, and objects that arise from exchanges between different cultures and mediums. She recently curated ๐น๐‘ข๐‘˜๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘Ž: ๐ฝ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐บ๐‘–๐‘“๐‘ก ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ถโ„Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘  ๐ป๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ƒ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘€๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ข๐‘š (2024).
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