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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
The novel depicts human suffering in many ways: the physical and psychological pain of foot binding; the suffering of women of the time, who were treated as property; the terrible trek up the mountains to escape from the horrors of the Taiping Rebellion; the painful return down the mountain with dead bodies everywhere. Some estimate that the ...
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.
The Three-Inch Golden Lotus: A Novel on Foot Binding. This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her feet bound in the supreme Golden Lotus style when...
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.
1 mar 1994 · The Three-Inch Golden Lotus: A Novel on Foot Binding. Feng Jicai. University of Hawaii Press, Mar 1, 1994 - Fiction - 248 pages. This beguiling story is woven around the life of...
1 sty 1999 · The plot is set in the year 1911 when foot-binding was a mandatory practice for Chinese women. Ailin, third daughter of a rich Chinese family resists getting her feet bound, a decision which is supported by her father inspite of the disapproval from her mother.
