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Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China

Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China Hardcover - 2000

by Wang, Ping

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The author explores the cultural history behind the Chinese custom of footbinding, why Chinese women over 1,000 years endured the practice, and why Chinese men found women's "golden lotuses" so arousing. Photos.

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Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Pictorial boards, xiv, 265 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. CONTENTS: Three-inch golden lotuses: achieving beauty through violence; A brief history of footbinding; Footbinding and the cult of the exemplary woman; Edible beauty: food and foot fetishes in China; Silken slippers: footbinding in Chinese erotica; Binding, weaving, chatting: female bonding and writing; From golden lotus to Prime Minister: a woman's tale living from mouth to mouth; The fabric of masquerade.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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  • Title Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China
  • Author Wang, Ping
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
  • Date 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 098276
  • ISBN 9780816636051 / 0816636052
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.17 x 0.89 in (23.57 x 15.67 x 2.26 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women - China - Social conditions, Footbinding - China - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00009522
  • Dewey Decimal Code 391.41

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 07/01/2000, Page 116
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/28/2000, Page 66

About the author

Wang Ping, born in Shanghai, came to the United States in 1985. Her books include short stories, American Visa (1994); a novel, Foreign Devil (1996); and poetry, Of Flesh and Spirit (1998). She also edited and cotranslated New Generation: Poems from China Today (1999). She has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University and teaches creative writing at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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