Aching for Beauty by Wang Ping

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Aching for Beauty by Wang Ping

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-deformed and malodorous as they were. By first examining the root of her own girlhood desire, Wang unleashes a fascinating inquiry into a centuries-old custom.
Aching for Beauty combines Wang's unique perspective and remarkable literary gifts in an award-winning exploration of the history and culture surrounding footbinding. In setting out to demystify this reviled tradition, Wang probes an astonishing range of literary references, addresses the relationship between beauty and pain, and discusses the intense female bonds that footbinding fostered. Her comprehensive examination of the notions of hierarchy, femininity, and fetish bound up in the tradition places footbinding in its proper context in Chinese history and opens a window onto an intriguing culture.

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ISBN 13 9780385721363
ISBN 10 0385721366
Title Aching for Beauty
Author Wang Ping
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Year published 2002-03-12
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.