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Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet
Every Step a Lotus Shoes for Bound Feet
Author: Dorothy Ko
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 aspe...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520232839
ISBN-10: 0520232836
Publication Date: 12/11/2001
Pages: 200
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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