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17 paź 2016 · There are many aspects to foot binding that relate or go back to society influence. Foot binding was first found to be generally accepted among the elite families. However, later this practice became more common and known throughout society.
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...
1 sty 2001 · The Three-Inch Golden Lotus: A Novel on Foot Binding. Feng Jicai, David Wakefield (Translator), 冯骥才. 3.82. 524ratings46reviews. Buy on Amazon. This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her feet bound in the supreme Golden Lotus style when she is six years old.
1 sie 2004 · This novel by Donna Jo Napoli follows a girl named Xing Xing tending to her stepmother and stepsister after the death of her father. ‘Bound’ is set in Ming China, during the time period that foot binding was a popular practice.
White Lily is the pure, allegorical child hero who not only questions the age-old practice of foot binding, but dares to want to be a scholar like her brother and father. And so, White Lily embarks upon, and fulfills, her quest with the strangely dispassionate certainty of a fairy tale automaton.
Books with the subject: Footbinding. Up to 20 books are listed, in descending order of popularity
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.
