Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China

by Wang Ping

Book Overview

A fascinating and haunting exploration of the bound foot in Chinese culture. Why did so many Chinese women over a thousand-year period bind their feet, enduring rotting flesh, throbbing pain, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385721366
• ISBN13: 9780385721363
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Well-Researched and Informative

After enjoying Ping's poetry, I started reading this book. It is wonderfully well-researched. The photos are stunning in their ability to portray the mutilation of the feet. Most interesting is her ability to research this practice from several different views. I was very interested in the arts that promote this practice, as well as how historically it was often difficult to prevent women from continuing the tradition. This book was informative without lapsing into too many stats or technical theories.