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Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet
Dorothy Ko
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Description for Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet
Paperback. Collects information about footbinding in China, using color and black-and-white photography to chronicle the history of the practice. Num Pages: 162 pages, 61 color illustrations, 17 b/w photographs, 15 line figures, 6 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 678.
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 amazing regional variations in style--she contends that footbinding was a reasonable course of action for a woman who lived in a Confucian culture that placed the highest ... Read more
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 amazing regional variations in style--she contends that footbinding was a reasonable course of action for a woman who lived in a Confucian culture that placed the highest ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
162
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
678g
Number of Pages
162
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520232846
SKU
V9780520232846
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About Dorothy Ko
Dorothy Ko is Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women & Culture in Seventeenth-Century China (1994).
Reviews for Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet
To read or not to read?
that's the question. In the end, it comes down to whether or not such a practice is of historic, cultural and artistic iterest. In this reagrd, Ko's book is persuasive that footbinding meets all these tests. -PACIFIC READER
that's the question. In the end, it comes down to whether or not such a practice is of historic, cultural and artistic iterest. In this reagrd, Ko's book is persuasive that footbinding meets all these tests. -PACIFIC READER