Hua Mei, professor at Tianjin Normal University, the head of the Hua Mei Clothing Ornament Culturology Study Institute and the former dean of the College of Arts and Design. She began to teach the Chinese clothing history in 1983, established the new discipline of clothing ornament culturology study in 1994, took charge of three national cultural projects of the Social Science Fund and the Ministry of Education, and was the main lecturer for the national classic resource sharing course Chinese and Western Clothing History. Now she has published 56 monographs. Her representative works are Human Costume and Ornament Culturology, Clothing Ornaments and Chinese Culture, Chinese Clothing History, Western Clothing History and Clothing Aesthetics. Many of them have been translated into English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Arabic and published abroad. She was invited to teach China’s clothing ornament culture at Nara Women’s University in Japan, University of Fashion in Lyon, France, Institute of France in Paris, New Zealand Academy of Fashion Design and Rangsit University in Thailand.
