International Journal of Costume and Fashion

The Korean Society of Costume (한국복식학회)
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Ideological symbols of Heavenly Kingdom's Dress

  • Kim, Sun (Dept. of Fashion Design, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Cho, Woo Hyun (Dept. of Fashion Design, Sungkyunkwan University)
  • Received : 2015.05.26
  • Accepted : 2015.06.19
  • Published : 2015.06.30
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Abstract

Heavenly Kingdom was known for their strict discipline and law as well as their anti-corruption practices and for putting up unconventional ideas to rule its kingdom. They became weak as their leadership was split along with the power struggles that occurred within their kingdom. Heavenly Kingdom's style of dress also ended during this period, but their philosophy continues to influence the style of dress. Taiping rebellion was modern China's biggest internal disturbance which prior studies included political ideals, gender equality and the peasant movement. My research is to associate Heavenly Kingdom's ideas and their dress style by analyzing its relations. Their form of clothing was similar to the Qing Dynasty but the same. They wanted to restore their identity of the Han(漢) while their ideology was oriented in creating a large enough military power to go against the corrupt Qing Dynasty as seen in their military uniform. This research is to analyze about Heavenly Kingdom's ideology with regard to their style of dress but because of their short existence, there are only small remains of artifacts and clothing available which limits this research. This research has to developing further research as I gather more additional data.

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