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Footbinding as fashion : ethnicity, labor, and status in traditional China /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shepherd, John Robert (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Footbinding > China > History.
Women > Employment > China.
Women > China > Social conditions.
Footbinding.
Women > Employment.
Women > Social conditions.
China.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Seeking status, avoiding shame
  • Chapter 1. The Qing conquest and footbinding
  • Chapter 2. The Taiwan Census of 1905
  • Chapter 3. The 1915 prohibition
  • Chapter 4. Footbinding for marriage
  • Chapter 5. Regional variations among the Hoklo Fujianese
  • Chapter 6. Women's labor in agriculture
  • Chapter 7. Women's labor in handicrafts
  • Chapter 8. Bannerwomen and civilian women in the Northeast
  • Conclusion: The tyranny of fashion
  • Chinese character glossary
  • Notes.