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=Mao Suit= =Table of Contents= Mao Suit Type of outfit Historical Era Materials Description Other Webliography Pictures by Andy Research string
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=Type of outfit= After the end of the [|Chinese Civil War] and the establishment of the [|People's Republic of China] in 1949, the suit became widely worn by males and government leaders as a symbol of proletarian unity and an Eastern counterpart to the Western [|business suit]. - //**wikipedia**//

=Historical Era= 1912 - present - __**wikipedia**__ In the 1920s and 1930s, Chinese civil servants were required to wear the suit. __**- wisegeek**__

=Materials= - //**noun**// a simple style of clothing, traditionally made of cotton and commonly worn in Communist China, consisting of loose trousers and a straight jacket with a close-fitting stand-up collar - //**dictionary.reference**//

=Description= aka The Sun Yat-sen suit - **//powerhousemuseum//**

The modern **Chinese tunic suit** is a style of male attire known in China as the **Zhongshan suit** (simplified Chinese: 中山装 ; traditional Chinese: 中山裝 ; pinyin: //Zhōngshān zhuāng//) (after Sun Yat-Sen ), and known in the West as the **Mao suit** (after Mao Zedong). Sun Zhongshan (better known as Sun Yat-sen) introduced the style shortly after the founding of the Republic of China as a form of national dress although with a distinctly political and later governmental implication. **//- Wikipedia//**

**Nationalism in dress**  Long after Sun Yat-sen's death, popular mythology assigned a revolutionary and patriotic significance to the Sun Yat-sen suit, even though it was essentially a foreign-style garment. The four pockets were said to represent the Four Cardinal Principles cited in the classic //Book of changes// and understood by the Chinese as fundamental principles of conduct: The five centre-front buttons were said to represent the five powers of the constitution of the Republic and the three cuff-buttons to symbolise the Three Principles of the People
 * propriety
 * justice
 * honesty
 * a sense of shame.
 * nationalism
 * democracy
 * people's livelihood.

- **//powerhousemuseum//**

=Other=

Mao had worn this style of suit since 1927 but it was only after 1949 that it was adopted by the majority of the Chinese population. It is known in the West as the Mao suit. - **//powerhousemuseum//**

The **Mao suit** is the western name for the style of male dress known as the **Sun Zhongshan suit** (中山装, Zhong1shan1 zhuang1, or 中山服, Zhong1shan1 fu2), named after Sun Zhongshan ([|Sun Yat-sen]) who introduced it shortly after the founding of the [|Republic of China]. In accordance with the Chinese tradition of changing the style of dress for different dynasties, Sun Yat-sen instructed that a new suit be designed for the new republic. The western name comes from its popularization by [|Mao Zedong]. **//- wordiq//**

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