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Language: en
Pages: 249
Pages: 249
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-25 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
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 F
Language: en
Pages: 252
Pages: 252
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-03-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
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 F
Language: en
Pages: 283
Pages: 283
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
An exploration of the history and cultural practice of footbinding in China reveals the traditions that contributed to and surrounded its thousand-year enforcem
Language: en
Pages: 448
Pages: 448
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-25 - Publisher: Manchester University Press
This book is a timely and solid portrait of modern China from the First Opium War to the Xi Jinping era. Unlike the handful of existing textbooks that only prov
Language: en
Pages: 384
Pages: 384
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
Footbinding is widely condemned as perverse & as symbolic of male domination over women. This study offers a more complex explanation of a thousand year practic