Bound Feet & Western Dress: a Memoir Paperback - 1997
by Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
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- Paperback
This "gripping, candid dual memoir . . . relates the stories of great-aunt and great-niece and their individual struggles to reconcile Chinese tradition and modern Western ideas" ("South Morning China Post"). of photos.
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- Title Bound Feet & Western Dress: a Memoir
- Author Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor Books, New York
- Date 1997
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # LINCBOOK022649
- ISBN 9780385479646 / 0385479646
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.22 x 0.53 in (20.42 x 13.26 x 1.35 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Chinese
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Chinese Americans, China - Social life and customs
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95049479
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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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 dual memoir 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.
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 08/18/1997, Page 0
