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Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China Hardcover - 2000
by Wang Wang Ping
The author explores the cultural history behind the Chinese custom of footbinding, why Chinese women over 1,000 years endured the practice, and why Chinese men found women's "golden lotuses" so arousing. Photos.
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- Title Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China
- Author Wang Wang Ping
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
- Date October 10, 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780816636051 / 0816636052
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.17 x 0.89 in (23.57 x 15.67 x 2.26 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 00009522
- Dewey Decimal Code 391.41
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- Library Journal, 07/01/2000, Page 116
- Publishers Weekly, 08/25/2000, Page 0
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Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Pictorial boards, xiv, 265 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. CONTENTS: Three-inch golden lotuses: achieving beauty through violence; A brief history of footbinding; Footbinding and the cult of the exemplary woman; Edible beauty: food and foot fetishes in China; Silken slippers: footbinding in Chinese erotica; Binding, weaving, chatting: female bonding and writing; From golden lotus to Prime Minister: a woman's tale living from mouth to mouth; The fabric of masquerade.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in Fine wrap-around band as dust ajcket. Boards, xivm 265pp, index, bibliography. A few B&W illus. This is a book on footbinding in China written by an assistant professor of English who was born in Shanghai. (1.7 JM HOZ 402/b1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
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