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Author |
: Dorothy Ko |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520253902 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520253906 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cinderella's Sisters by : Dorothy Ko
Footbinding is widely condemned as perverse & as symbolic of male domination over women. This study offers a more complex explanation of a thousand year practice, contending that the binding of women's feet in China was sustained by the interests of both women and men.
Author |
: Ping Wang |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452904870 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452904871 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aching for Beauty by : Ping Wang
An exploration of the history and cultural practice of footbinding in China reveals the traditions that contributed to and surrounded its thousand-year enforcement, as well as its related literature, music, contests, and rewards.
Author |
: Laurel Bossen |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2017-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781503601079 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1503601072 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bound Feet, Young Hands by : Laurel Bossen
Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get even very young girls to sit still and work with their hands. Interviews with 1,800 elderly women, many with bound feet, reveal the reality of girls' hand labor across the North China Plain, Northwest China, and Southwest China. As binding reshaped their feet, mothers disciplined girls to spin, weave, and do other handwork because many village families depended on selling such goods. When factories eliminated the economic value of handwork, footbinding died out. As the last generation of footbound women passes away, Bound Feet, Young Hands presents a data-driven examination of the social and economic aspects of this misunderstood custom.
Author |
: Feng Jicai |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 1994-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0824816064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780824816063 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Three-Inch Golden Lotus by : Feng Jicai
This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her feet bound in the supreme Golden Lotus style when she is six years old. Events in Fragrants Lotus’ life twist and unfold in a series of witty and often wicked ironies, obliterating easy distinctions between kindness and cruelty, history and fable, forgery and authentic work. The novel’s waggish narrator exists in the tension between judgement and description, wryly deflating his reader’s certainties along the way. Written in 1985, The Three-Inch Golden Lotus is a deeply affecting, thoroughly enjoyable literary revelation.
Author |
: Dorothy Ko |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 174 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520232836 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520232839 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Every Step a Lotus by : Dorothy Ko
A well-written and beautifully illustrated book on foot binding and the exquisite shoes designed for the tiny feet.
Author |
: Lisa See |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2011-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781408821626 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1408821621 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by : Lisa See
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything.
Author |
: Shirley See Yan Ma |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 205 |
Release |
: 2009-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135190071 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135190070 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Footbinding by : Shirley See Yan Ma
Footbinding provides a Jungian perspective on the Chinese tradition of footbinding and considers how it can be used as a metaphor for the suffering of women and the repression of the feminine, as well as a symbol for hope, and creativity.
Author |
: Pang-Mei Chang |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2011-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307792242 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307792242 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bound Feet & Western Dress by : Pang-Mei Chang
A harrowing dual memoir that braids the story of a Chinese-American woman’s search for identity with the dramatic tale of her great-aunt, who was born at the turn of the century in tradition-bound China and went on to become Vice President of China’s first women’s bank. "In China, a woman is nothing." Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Chang Yu-i's life is marked by a series of rebellions: her refusal as a child to let her mother bind her feet, her scandalous divorce, and her rise to Vice President of China's first women's bank in her later years. In the alternating voices of two generations, this literary debut brings together a deeply textured portrait of a woman's life in China with the very American story of Yu-i's brilliant and assimilated grandniece, struggling with her own search for identity and belonging. Written in pitch-perfect prose and alive with detail, Bound Feet and Western Dress is the story of independent women struggling to emerge from centuries of customs and duty.
Author |
: Ting-Xing Ye |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 65 |
Release |
: 2011-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780385674133 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0385674139 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis White Lily by : Ting-Xing Ye
Nearly a century ago, in the Forbidden City, China’s last emperor reigned from his dragon throne. Although he was only a boy, the imperial decrees issued in his name echoed in every corner of the country. Every man had to shave his head and wear a single pigtail to symbolize his submission to the emperor, and every woman was second in importance to the men in her family. Women were obedient to their fathers and brothers and later to the husbands in their arranged marriages. Certainly no woman was encouraged to attend school or to show any independence. Into this world, in a village in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, White Lily was born. She had a happy childhood, running and playing, until, at the age of four, she was forced to undergo the painful procedure of foot binding required for all females of her social class. But White Lily has her heart set on more than a traditional role in society, and she enlists the support of her beloved elder brother. Together they devise a plan to defy tradition and convince their father that White Lily’s feet and mind must be allowed to grow.
Author |
: Howard S. Levy |
Publisher |
: University of Tokyo Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2001-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0710307365 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780710307361 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chinese Footbinding by : Howard S. Levy
This is the first complete history of the custom of footbinding, which persisted for a thousand years in China. Drawn from the erotic literature of traditional China and more contemporary sources, this is a detailed portrait of a practice that lay at the heart of the sexual psychology of the Chinese for whom the golden lotus or bound foot encased in tiny silken slipper and swaying willow walk of bound-footed women were the ultimate expressions of sensuality. But as the author shows, footbinding was more than an erotic custom; it was also central to the sociological position and role of women in Chinese society. The book deals with the origin, presence, and history of foot binding, the techniques associated with it, its place in erotic practices, the pain and pleasure of the custom, and its sociological importance.