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Aching For Beauty: Footbinding in China Hardcover - 2000
by Wang Ping
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- Hardcover
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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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Details
- Title Aching For Beauty: Footbinding in China
- Author Wang Ping
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Univ Of Minnesota Press, USA
- Date 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 037650
- 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)
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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