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Bound Feet, Young Hands : Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China by Bossen, Laurel ;Gates, Hill is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, 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.</p> <p>Interviews with 1,800 elderly women, many with bound fe
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It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Bossen, Laurel ;Gates, Hill
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780804799553
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- Science, Folklore, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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