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17 paź 2016 · Foot binding originated in the tenth or eleventh century by dancers and courtesans. This was a practice where a young girl’s feet were tightly wrapped. This usually caused the bones to break, thus causing extreme pain.
She sets out to provide a different perspective on foot-binding, one that is neither for or against and does so. Encourage people to read as an introspective on how we view the actions of others and the kind of history we are leaving behind ourselves.
1 sty 2001 · The novel leaves the reader with a knowledge of the mechanics, art (if it can be called art), appraisal and history of foot-binding. Though the author is clearly condemning the practice, and presents the male fascination with bound feet as a nauseating fetish, he offers a sympathetic portrait of women who not only accepted but clung to the ...
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.
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka (33 times) The Binding Chair or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society by Kathryn Harrison (21 times) Peony in Love by Lisa See (17 times) Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding by Dorothy Ko (15 times) Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See (10 times)
20 kwi 2015 · The millennium-long practice of foot-binding in traditional China embodied various positive cultural values, such as beauty, femininity, sexuality, morality, higher social status, and Han ethnicity.
1 lut 2020 · In his meticulously researched and elegantly argued book Footbinding as Fashion, John Shepherd has made a major contribution by introducing a new body of evidence, the 1905 and 1915 censuses conducted by the Japanese colonial government in Taiwan.
