Chinesisches Gewebe – Chinese Weave

Chinese Weave is a photography book by the travelling and researching artist and fashion designer Regine Steenbock. We follow her gaze into a country that is permanently present in the so-called West as a myth, political dubiousness and economic threat. At the same time, China seems unfamiliar and difficult to decipher. In about 350 pictures, different aspects of the textile culture and economy are shown, just as they are found in the everyday reality of life.

Regine Steenbock spent over thirteen months in southern China for this visual and textile research trip, roaming through the textile mass production for the world market in the Pearl River Delta and discovering the highly elaborated traditional textile culture and the contemporary fashion of the Miao and other Chinese minority groups in an astonishing coexistence 1300 km further inland, in Guizhou. Mythological coming to terms with the past meets hopeful belief in progress, remote-controlled politics meets local anarchy

Divided into thematic chapters, this publication presents an essence of the extensive image archive created between 2016–18, supplemented by commentaries expanding the specific contexts, diary entries and a foreword by Barbara Vinken.

The e-book contains additional image galleries, an interactive map and over 25 minutes of video material.

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The publishers:
EECLECTIC (Berlin) and Textem (Hamburg) have been accompanying and supporting the publication project since 2018. Their complementary skills make Chinese Weave a publication that is available as an e-book almost anywhere in the world at the click of a button and can be held in tangible physicality as a print version.