Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of ...
 Vision- not Revisionist!: Dorothy Ko locates the core of interpretation for footbinding lost in so much that has been written on the topic for the last 150 years. Ko has written extensively on the topic, feeling that such a complex phenomenon cannot be [... more]
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Translating Feminisms in China
This volume, which brings together articles by scholars and activists in China, Japan, Canada and the US in multiple disciplines, seeks to illuminate the problems and possibilities involved in translating feminism from the metropolitan 'West' to a locale [... more]
$24.73
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Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban ...
DIVThis book argues that regional food culture is intrinsic to how Chinese connect to the past, live in the present, and imagine their future. It focuses on Shanghai-a food lover's paradise-and identifies the importance of regional food culture at [... more]
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Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding
Dorothy Ko's daring in taking on the difficult subject of footbinding has resulted in a tour-de-force. In Cinderella's Sisters she rises above nationalist, feminist, and Orientalist polemic to place footbinding clearly in the domain of the history of [... more]
$33.84
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Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral & Textual Histor
Oral histories of six women activists from China's May Fourth Movement in the 1920s.Rarely does a reviewer or publisher encounter a milestone: this is it. It is the first major study of the development of Chinese feminism in what is arguably the most [... more]
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Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet
In Every Step a Lotus, Dorothy Ko embarks on a fascinating exploration of the practice of footbinding in China, explaining its origins, purpose, and spread before the nineteenth century. She uses women's own voices to reconstruct the inner chambers of a [... more]
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Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in ...
Thorough and thoughtful: When it was written, Ko's book was one of the first to reconsider previously accepted views about women's status in China. The traditional readings had been that women were deprived, subjugated, and prisoners in their culture. [... more]
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Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet
Fantastic & informative! High price of fashion and status...: For centuries in China women tottered wearing tiny silk shoes. In "Every Step a Lotus," Dorothy Ko describes the obscure Chinese custom of footbinding. Every culture has [... more]
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Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of ...
Vision- not Revisionist!: Dorothy Ko locates the core of interpretation for footbinding lost in so much that has been written on the topic for the last 150 years. Ko has written extensively on the topic, feeling that such a complex phenomenon cannot be [... more]
$18.95
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The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism
P/PPChow's discussion of the concept of 'ethnicity' in a late-capitalist Western society presents a creatively refreshing perspective on the contradictions and conflicts of this taken-for-granted concept. IThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of [... more]
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