Red Clothes Workshop

Author: Li Hong
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: From 1794, when Zhang Shangyi, the founder of the Hongbang tailoring guild from Ningbo, Yinzhou, left his hometown for overseas, to 1949 when Zhang Tianyun, along with Lou Chengfang and others, sewed robes for the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China, five generations of Hongbang tailors have gone through over 150 years of turbulent and epic struggles. Today, renowned domestic and international brands such as Zhen Shan, Ya Guo Er, Luo Meng, and Pei Luo Meng are the century-old echoes of this Hongbang entrepreneurship history. The Red Dress Factory is set against the backdrop of the vibrant business world in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s, telling the extraordinary and dramatic life story of Zhang Tianyun, the leader of the Hongbang tailors, and revolves around the century-old clothing brand Tong Yi Chang, recreating the thrilling commercial battles between the two generations of its masters and the Shanghai underworld, big capitalists, and Japanese financial powers.