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Footbinding as Fashion: Ethnicity, Labor, and Status in Traditional China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 173–176.
Published: 01 February 2020
... power for Sichuan and Yunnan. For the former, see
Hill
Gates
, Footbinding and Women's Labor in Sichuan ( London : Routledge , 2015 ) ; for the latter, see
Laurel
Bossen
, Chinese Women and Rural Development: Sixty Years of Change in Lu Village, Yunnan ( Lanham, Md. : Rowman...
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Marriage Mobility and Footbinding in Pre-1949 Rural China: A Reconsideration of Gender, Economics, and Meaning in Social Causation
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1035–1067.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Melissa J. Brown; Laurel Bossen; Hill Gates; Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips Abstract We provide evidence contrary to long-standing general expectations that before 1949 most Chinese women married up the social hierarchy and that footbinding facilitated this hypergamy. In our sample of 7,314 rural...
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Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1219–1221.
Published: 01 November 2003
... readers that this work challenges our assumptions about footbinding. We have to rethink the relations of footbinding and social class, virtue, sexuality, health, regionalism, and historical change. Much has been written about this seductive practice that obsesses thinkers about China, mostly by reformers...
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Chinas Unlimited: Making the Imaginaries of China and Chineseness
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1221–1223.
Published: 01 November 2003
... interprets what they tell us about women's art, history, hopes, and bodily experience. Footbinding reshaped a woman's body and the image that she presented. Shoes are cunningly designed to present the illusion of even smaller feet. Decorations include visual puns that participate in the broader cultural...
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Gender Trouble 's Afterlife in Chinese Studies
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 911–926.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., and what conversations and challenges did the book enable, not as a blueprint but as an incubator of locally grounded thinking? How has it been adapted, pruned down to one or two insights, or expanded into new domains? 59 On footbinding as bodily practice, see also Wang Ping, Aching For Beauty...
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Women in the Ching-hua yüan : Emancipation toward a Confucian Ideal
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (4): 647–660.
Published: 01 August 1977
... are bound. Li Ju-chen describes in great detail the awful footbinding process, with its accompanying pain and agony, yet surprisingly he never openly advocates abolition of this custom. For example, there is no mention of footbinding in Empress Wu's decrees, and Li himself elsewhere makes it clear that his...
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Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 229–231.
Published: 01 February 2003
... and reveals the hidden dimensions in the efforts of Hong Kong residents to reconstitute their sense of identity. Dorothy Ko explores how the Western perception of footbinding and fashion changes in history and argues that the Western myth about footbinding as the symbol of China's changelessness helps...
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Nationalism, Modernity, and the “Woman Question” in India and China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 273–297.
Published: 01 May 2013
... against widow remarriage, purdah, child marriage, and so on, was a truism among colonial officials, a “fact” that testified to India's low status on the civilizational scale, and thus also as proof for why India needed to be ruled by a more advanced country; and in China footbinding, concubinage...
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The Cambridge History of China . Vol. 13: Republican China, 1912–1949, Part 2
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 342–345.
Published: 01 May 1988
... H E J O U R N A L OF A S I A N STUDIES profoundly unsatisfying tool from the chest of the Asiatic mode of production: "the major impetus [to change] came from abroad" (p. 21). The treatment in the introduction of topics in the larger area of culture is also problematic. Footbinding is presented...
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Editorial Foreword 71.4 (November 2012)
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 851–856.
Published: 01 November 2012
... that comes “Marriage Mobility and Footbinding in Pre-1949 Rural China: A Reconsideration of Gender, Economics, and Meaning in Social Causation,” a collaborative work by anthropologists M elissa J. B rown , L aurel B ossen , H ill G ates , and D amian S atterthwaite- P hillips . Closing the issue is legal...
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He Zhen and Anarcho-Feminism in China
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 796–813.
Published: 01 November 1988
... of this feminism was perhaps radical for its day: feminist demands included the end to footbinding and the right to modern education. But the form of this feminism was confined to China-as-nation: changes were needed ultimately not for the sake of Chinese women but for the sake of Chinese wealth and power. Perhaps...
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Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 240–241.
Published: 01 February 2012
... of the gendered principles and practices—such as footbinding—that enforced that isolation? Now that this book has so carefully delineated the ways elite male medical practitioners framed their understandings of the female body, we can only hope other researchers will uncover new sources and creatively use...
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Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 698–700.
Published: 01 August 2013
... to state regulation as well as publicly displayed rewards. State control is less explicit in the book's second part, devoted to the body. Here Mann presents scholarship on medicine, childbirth, sport, and footbinding and its legacy, and concludes the section with a chapter devoted to the complex...
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The Market Mechanism and Economic Reforms in China
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 528–529.
Published: 01 May 1994
... discussion of the spread of footbinding available in English), women's work making cloth, husband-wife relations, continuing the family through women, and adultery, incest, and divorce. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including funerary biographies, records of court cases, medical treatises, advice...
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The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 529–530.
Published: 01 May 1994
... the most thorough discussion of the spread of footbinding available in English), women's work making cloth, husband-wife relations, continuing the family through women, and adultery, incest, and divorce. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including funerary biographies, records of court cases, medical...
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La Condition féminine et les communistes Chinois en action: Yan'an, 1935–1946
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (4): 741–742.
Published: 01 August 1984
... the financial loss of a worker. Most importantly, Hua ignores footbinding a crucial concern to the government if women were to achieve liberation. Finally, in the last chapter the author argues that Party leaders married at their convenience and divorced their wives when it suited them with little regard...
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A Comparative History of Ideas
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 329–330.
Published: 01 May 1988
... interpretations ones that distort histories of women's experience by focusing exclusively on aspects of religious tradition concerned solely or primarily with women. Young says that the history of women and religion "cannot all be summed up by the descriptions of Chinese footbinding, Hindu sati, Muslimpurdah...
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Women in World Religions
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 330–331.
Published: 01 May 1988
... by the descriptions of Chinese footbinding, Hindu sati, Muslimpurdah and Christian witchcraft" (p. 3). Thus, even though Women in World Religions examines patterns of exclusivity, it also discusses modes of coparticipation by men and women in religious ritual and of complementarity between male and female roles...
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State of the Field: Women in China's Long Twentieth Century
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 991–1065.
Published: 01 November 2004
... : Columbia University Press . Drucker Alison R. 1981 . “The Influence of Western Women on the Anti-Footbinding Movement, 1840–1911.” In Guisso and Johannesen 1981. Du Fangqin . 2001 . “‘Manoeuvring Fate' and ‘Following the Call': Development and Prospects of Women's Studies.” In Hsiung...
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Radicalism and Its Demise: The Chinese Nationalist Party, Factionalism, and Local Elites in Jiangsu Province, 1924–1931
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (4): 1342–1343.
Published: 01 November 2002
.... In the latter, the Westerneducated radicals attacked traditional religion, confiscated temples, and burned BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 1343 religious statues under the guise of wiping out feudal superstition. Even attempts to end footbinding, cut off queues, and replace the lunar calendar could rankle conservative...
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