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Can I read The binding chair, or, A visit from the Foot Emancipation Society : a novel on EtoBox?
The binding chair, or, A visit from the Foot Emancipation Society : a novel by Harrison, Kathryn is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The binding chair, or, A visit from the Foot Emancipation Society : a novel about?
In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves in The Binding Chair; or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. Set in alluring Shanghai at the turn of the century, The Binding Chair intertwines the destinies of a Chinese woman determined to forget her past and a Western girl focused on the promises of the future. Beautiful, charismatic, destructive, May escapes an arranged marriage in rural nineteenth-century China for life in a Shanghai brothel, where she meets Arthur, an Australian whose philanthropic pursuits lead him into one scrape after another. As a member of the Foot Emancipation Society, Arthur calls on May not for his pleasure but for her rehabilitation, only to find himself immediately and helplessly seduced by the sight of her bound feet. Reforming May is out of the question, so love-struck Arthur marries her instead and brings her home to live with him, his sister and brother-in-law, and their two girls, Alice and Cecily. In Alice, May sees the possibility of redemption: a surrogate for a child she has lost. And it is to May that A
Who reads The binding chair, or, A visit from the Foot Emancipation Society : a novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Harrison, Kathryn
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060934422
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.48 / 5 (1,347 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14