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Foot-binding was the tradition of binding a young daughter's feet by wrapping cloth around their feet tightly and forcing them to walk until their bones broke and were easier to mold and change, then tightening the bindings.
Books shelved as foot-binding: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See, Peony in Love by Lisa See, Bound by Donna Jo Napoli, Ties That Bind, Ties That...
21 lut 2005 · Together, they endure the agony of foot-binding, and reflect upon their arranged marriages, shared loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive.
26 maj 2009 · In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu (“women’s writing”).
13 lut 2024 · The act of foot binding is horrific, but it is also an act of love; the bound foot is a symbol of entrapment and oppression, but it is also an emblem of exquisite beauty and refinement. Written in 1985, The Three-Inch Golden Lotus is a deeply affecting, thoroughly enjoyable literary revelation."--Jacket
1 sty 1999 · Ailin, the third daughter of a wealthy Chinese family in Nanjing in 1911, is smart, headstrong, and slightly spoiled. When she is five, she fights at having her feet bound. Her mother and grandmother are horrified, while her older sister is sympathetic. Her father surprises them all.
1 sty 2008 · In the Haishan region of northern Taiwan, the percentage of boundfootedness among 242 women born prior to the Japanese abolition of the custom averaged 85.2 percent, with substantial differences in the rates according to the varied forms of marriage (Wolf and Huang, 1980: 265).
