Title Bound feet, young hands : tracking the demise of footbinding in village China / Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates.

Publication Info.	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
	©2017

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Questions about footbinding -- Seeking answers : research methods and fieldwork -- The North China Plain -- Northwest China -- Southwest China -- Bound feet across China.
Summary	Footbinding was common in China until the early 20th century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? Here, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get even very young girls to sit still and work with their hands.
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Subject	Footbinding -- China.
	Footbinding.
	China.
	Footbinding -- Economic aspects -- China.
	Footbinding -- Economic aspects.
	Rural girls -- Employment -- China.
	Rural girls -- Employment.
	Rural girls.
	Rural women -- Employment -- China.
	Rural women -- Employment.
	Rural women.
	Handicraft industries -- China.
	Handicraft industries.
	Rural girls -- China -- Social life and customs.
	Manners and customs.
	Rural women -- China -- Social life and customs.
	China -- Rural conditions.
	Rural conditions.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Gates, Hill, author.
Other Form:	Print version: Bossen, Laurel, 1945- Bound feet, young hands. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017] 9780804799553 (DLC) 2016020136 (OCoLC)948961187
ISBN	9781503601079 (electronic book)
	1503601072 (electronic book)
	9780804799553
	0804799555

Title Bound feet, young hands : tracking the demise of footbinding in village China / Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates.

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