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Author Shepherd, John Robert, author.

Title Footbinding as fashion : ethnicity, labor, and status in traditional China / John Robert Shepherd.

Publication Info. Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, [2018]

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (xxii, 252 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. Banner women and civilian women in the Northeast -- Conclusion: The tyranny of fashion -- Notes -- Chinese character glossary.
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Subject Footbinding -- China -- History.
Footbinding.
China.
History.
Women -- Employment -- China.
Women -- Employment.
Women -- China -- Social conditions.
Women.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Shepherd, John Robert author. Footbinding as fashion. First edition. Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, [2018] 9780295744414 (DLC) 2018012491
ISBN 9780295744421 electronic book
0295744421 electronic book
9780295744414 hardcover ; acid free paper
9780295744407