Cinderella's sisters : a revisionist history of footbinding /

Cinderella's sisters : a revisionist history of footbinding /

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Author / Creator:Ko, Dorothy, 1957-
Imprint:Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2005.
Description:xix, 332 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:ACLS Fellows' publications.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject:
Footbinding -- China.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10516570
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Varying Form of Title:Revisionist history of footbinding
Other authors / contributors:American Council of Learned Societies.
ISBN:0520218841
Notes:"Philip A. Lilienthal Asian Studies imprint"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2006. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows' Publications]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Conventions
  • List of Dynasties and Periods
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. The Body Exposed
  • 1. Gigantic Histories of the Nation in the Globe: The Rhetoric of Tianzu, 1880s-1910s
  • 2. The Body Inside Out: The Practice of Fangzu, 1900s-1930s
  • 3. The Bound Foot as Antique: Connoisseurship in an Age of Disavowal, 1930s-1941
  • Part 2. The Body Concealed
  • 4. From Ancient Texts to Current Customs: In Search of Footbinding's Origins
  • 5. The Erotics of Place: Male Desires and the Imaginary Geography of the Northwest
  • 6. Cinderella's Dreams: The Burden and Uses of the Female Body
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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