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1 sty 2001 · November 22, 2017. This is the life story of Fragrant Lotus who marries into the rich Tong family and is much admired for her beautiful tiny Golden Lotus feet. The process of foot binding is related in full and also a lot of the cultural reasons for doing so.
1 mar 1994 · An excellent, truly engaging novel of high literary merit. Feng tells his story brilliantly, with a great deal of playful ironic distance, choosing foot binding as the means of investigating China’s past as a comment on the present.
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
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...
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.
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.
foot binding, comments to Fragrant Lotus on the attitude she should have: In terms of your natural feet, you’ve been given the best pair in the world — the bones are soft and the flesh is tender • . .
