Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet (Övrig)
avDorothy Ko
ISBN: 9780520232846 - UTGIVEN: 2001-12-11In Every Step a Lotus, Dorothy Ko embarks on a fascinating exploration of the practice of footbinding in China, explaining its origins, purpose, and spread before the nineteenth century. She uses women's own voices to reconstruct the inner chambers of a Chinese house where women with bound feet live[...]
Cinderella's Sisters (Häftad)
avDorothy Ko
ISBN: 9780520253902 - UTGIVEN: 200510The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels, maid's quarters, and peasant households. Conventional views of footbinding as patriarchal oppression often neglec[...]
Translating Feminisms in China (Häftad)
avEditor:Dorothy Ko, Editor:Wang Zheng
ISBN: 9781405161701 - UTGIVEN: 2007-12-31
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong (Pocket)
avJahyun Kim (TRN) Haboush, Dorothy (FRW) Ko, Jahyun Kim (TRN) Haboush
ISBN: 9780520280489 - UTGIVEN: 2013-09Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life Shakespearean in its pathos, drama, and grandeur. P[...]
