Bound Feet, Young Hands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bound Feet, Young Hands write by Laurel Bossen. This book was released on 2017-01-25. Bound Feet, Young Hands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get even very young girls to sit still and work with their hands. Interviews with 1,800 elderly women, many with bound feet, reveal the reality of girls' hand labor across the North China Plain, Northwest China, and Southwest China. As binding reshaped their feet, mothers disciplined girls to spin, weave, and do other handwork because many village families depended on selling such goods. When factories eliminated the economic value of handwork, footbinding died out. As the last generation of footbound women passes away, Bound Feet, Young Hands presents a data-driven examination of the social and economic aspects of this misunderstood custom.
Aching for Beauty
Aching for Beauty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aching for Beauty write by Ping Wang. This book was released on 2002. Aching for Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of the history and cultural practice of footbinding in China reveals the traditions that contributed to and surrounded its thousand-year enforcement, as well as its related literature, music, contests, and rewards.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Snow Flower and the Secret Fan write by Lisa See. This book was released on 2011-10-17. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything.
Bound Feet & Western Dress
Bound Feet & Western Dress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bound Feet & Western Dress write by Pang-Mei Chang. This book was released on 2011-04-27. Bound Feet & Western Dress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A harrowing dual memoir that braids the story of a Chinese-American woman’s search for identity with the dramatic tale of her great-aunt, who was born at the turn of the century in tradition-bound China and went on to become Vice President of China’s first women’s bank. "In China, a woman is nothing." Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Chang Yu-i's life is marked by a series of rebellions: her refusal as a child to let her mother bind her feet, her scandalous divorce, and her rise to Vice President of China's first women's bank in her later years. In the alternating voices of two generations, this literary debut brings together a deeply textured portrait of a woman's life in China with the very American story of Yu-i's brilliant and assimilated grandniece, struggling with her own search for identity and belonging. Written in pitch-perfect prose and alive with detail, Bound Feet and Western Dress is the story of independent women struggling to emerge from centuries of customs and duty.
Cinderella's Sisters
Cinderella's Sisters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cinderella's Sisters write by Dorothy Ko. This book was released on 2005. Cinderella's Sisters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Footbinding is widely condemned as perverse & as symbolic of male domination over women. This study offers a more complex explanation of a thousand year practice, contending that the binding of women's feet in China was sustained by the interests of both women and men.
