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Aching for beauty : footbinding in China / Wang Ping.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Anchor Books, 2002.Edition: 1st Anchor Books edDescription: xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0-385-72136-6
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • DC 391.41 2000 P65a
LOC classification:
  • GT498.F66 W36 2002
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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.
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Originally published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.

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.

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