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Hardback. New. Previous studies of the practice of footbinding in imperial China have theorized that it expressed ethnic identity or that it served an economic function. By analyzing the popularity of footbinding in different places and times, Footbinding as Fashion investigates the claim that early Qing (1644-1911) attempts by Manchu rulers to ban footbinding made it a symbol of anti-Manchu sentiment and Han identity and led to the spread of the practice throughout all levels of society. Detailed case studies of Taiwan, Hebei, and Liaoning provinces exploit rich bodies of previously neglected ethnographic reports, economic surveys, and rare censuses of footbinding to challenge the significance of sedentary female labor and ethnic rivalries as factors leading to the hegemony of the footbinding fashion. The study concludes that, independently of identity politics and economic factors, variations in local status hierarchies and elite culture coupled with status competition and fear of ridicule for not…
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Footbinding as Fashion: Ethnicity, Labor, and Status in Traditional China Hardcover -
by John Robert Shepherd
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- Title Footbinding as Fashion: Ethnicity, Labor, and Status in Traditional China
- Author John Robert Shepherd
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Washington Press
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780295744414 / 0295744413
- Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.06 x 6.06 x 0.94 in (23.01 x 15.39 x 2.39 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Women - China - Social conditions, Footbinding - China - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018012491
- Dewey Decimal Code 391.413
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