Laurel Bossen: 1 book
Bound Feet, Young Hands
Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
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...
