Aching for Beauty Footbinding in China

Name: Aching for Beauty Footbinding in China
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ISBN: 9780385721363

ISBN-10: 0385721366

ISBN-13: 9780385721363

Edition: 2002 (Reprint)

Authors: Wang Ping

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When Wang Ping was nine years old, she secretly set about binding her feet with elastic bands. Footbinding had by then been outlawed in China, women’s feet “liberated,” but at that young age she desperately wanted the tiny feet her grandmother had–deformed and malodorous as they were. By first examining the root of her own girlhood desire, Wang unleashes a fascinating inquiry into a centuries-old custom. Aching for Beauty combines Wang’s unique perspective and remarkable literary gifts in an award-winning exploration of the history and culture surrounding footbinding. In setting out to demystify this reviled tradition, Wang probes an astonishing range of literary references, addresses the…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/12/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.24" wide x 8.00" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.528

Wang Ping was born in Shanghai, she teaches creative writing at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.