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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 ...
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...
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.
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.
21 lut 2005 · The two girls write to each other in nu shu, the secret language of Chinese women, and their bond blossoms - together, they endure the painful practice of foot binding, the trials and tribulations of arranged marriages, and the joys and sorrows of motherhood. At the age of 80, Lily recounts their shared lives, including the tragic incident that ...
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”).
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)
