Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China by Wang Ping

Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China

Wang Ping

288 pages paperback 2000

3 editions

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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When Wang Ping was nine years old, she secretly set about binding her feet with elastic bands. Footbinding had by then been outlawed in China, women's feet "liberated," but at that young age she desperately wanted the tiny feet her grandmother had...

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