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Aching for Beauty : Footbinding in China
Aching for Beauty Footbinding in China
Author: Wang Ping
When Wang Ping was nine years old, she secretly set about binding her feet with elastic bands. Footbinding had by then been outlawed in China, women’s feet “liberated,” but at that young age she desperately wanted the tiny feet her grandmother had–deformed and malodorous as they were. By first examining the root of her ow...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780385721363
ISBN-10: 0385721366
Publication Date: 3/12/2002
Pages: 288
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2.7 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Anchor
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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This could be the history of foot binding, or just one woman's clear and descriptive college paper on the oppression of women in China. Either way, it is filled with ancient texts, illustrations, and factual information of foot binding. It is not romantic as the current novels portray. Though supposed to be exotic and erotic, I found foot binding as sad and depressing.
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