Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom
Published by Bell Publishing Company, New York, 1967
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Orchid Press, Trinity East, NL, CanadaOrchid Press
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With foreword by Arthur Waley and introduction by Wolfram Eberhard. In China, the breaking, then binding, of the feet of young women to render them more attractive to the opposite sex was a fashion for many centuries, but reached its peak of popularity in the mid to late Qing. A painful process, essentially crippling the practitioner for life, it apparently catered to men who preferred women who were partially lame or had an uncertain gait. The material for Dr. Levy's detailed study of this practice was drawn from some 1500 pages of primary source material, much of it in Chinese. The volume remains a standard reference on this custom. All internal pages clean and unmarked. A very good copy in very good DJ, now in Mylar. 352 pp., 84 b&w photos and drawings, bibliography, index. Size: 21 x 14 cm.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom
- Author
- Levy, Howard S.
- Publisher
- Bell Publishing Company, New York
- Publication year
- 1967
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardbound
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Orchid Press specializes in the sale of books on Asian arts, cultures, history & languages, Asian indigenous books, Asian religions, particularly Buddhism, China Trade books, new & antiquarian books, maps and manuscripts, North-, South- & Southeast Asia and the Himalayan region. We also operate under the banner of Orchid Books, the name of our earlier 'bricks and mortar' bookshop, now only online. We have been members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) since 2011. We are always interested to buy collections and individual items In our areas of interest. * * * We have recently relocated our publishing and bookselling operations from Thailand, where we were based for the past 30 years, to Trinity, NL, Canada. * * *…
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