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Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet
Dorothy Ko
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| #1045108 in Books | 2001-11-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.69 x9.25l,1.50 | File type: PDF | 200 pages||6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| One of The Best|By carol melcher|For anyone interested in Chinese culture and its past, this is one of the best books I have seen to introduce the reader to the subject of Bound Feet. The idea of foot-binding was an erotic, as well as economic one, and this book not only explains why the binding was done but also how, in some detail. The photos of shoes that were produced to|From Publishers Weekly|One of the best known, most torturous examples of fashionable alteration is Chinese foot binding. In Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet, Barnard College history professor Dorothy Ko looks at the making and wearing of lotus shoes, the
In Every Step a Lotus, Dorothy Ko embarks on a fascinating exploration of the practice of footbinding in China, explaining its origins, purpose, and spread before the nineteenth century. She uses women's own voices to reconstruct the inner chambers of a Chinese house where women with bound feet lived and worked. Focusing on the material aspects of footbinding and shoemaking--the tools needed, the procedures, the wealth of symbolism in the shoes, and the amazi...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet | Dorothy Ko. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
