Madame Song av Pi Li

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The first book to explore the life and times of Chinese artist, businesswoman, socialite and style expert `Madame Song¿, whose life was spent in the company of a Who¿s Who of Cold War China and which paralleled the highs and lows of the country¿s history. The extraordinary life story of Song Huai-Kuei, better known as Madame Song, follows the arc of 20th-century history. Artist, entrepreneur and impresario, Song broke cultural barriers for love, transcended Cold War borders for her art, and laid the foundations for a global fashion industry. With her cosmopolitan outlook, she defined an influential vision for Chinese culture on the world stage and asserted an Asian perspective in 21st-century art and design. Madame Song is a name that everyone interested in the roots of contemporary visual culture needs to know. At the heart of this volume is a critical biography that explores Song¿s youth in revolutionary China, her cross-cultural marriage to Bulgarian fibre artist Maryn Varbanov, her