[PDF] The Three Inch Golden Lotus eBook

Author : Feng Jicai
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780824816063

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This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her feet bound in the supreme Golden Lotus style when she is six years old. Events in Fragrants Lotus’ life twist and unfold in a series of witty and often wicked ironies, obliterating easy distinctions between kindness and cruelty, history and fable, forgery and authentic work. The novel’s waggish narrator exists in the tension between judgement and description, wryly deflating his reader’s certainties along the way. Written in 1985, The Three-Inch Golden Lotus is a deeply affecting, thoroughly enjoyable literary revelation.

Author : Jicai Feng
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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A poor girl rises to high social status in China because of her unusually small feet. When her position is threatened by reformers out to abolish foot-binding she fights them. A study in social change.

Author : Feng Jicai
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0824843029

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This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her feet bound in the supreme Golden Lotus style when she is six years old. Events in Fragrants Lotus’ life twist and unfold in a series of witty and often wicked ironies, obliterating easy distinctions between kindness and cruelty, history and fable, forgery and authentic work. The novel’s waggish narrator exists in the tension between judgement and description, wryly deflating his reader’s certainties along the way. Written in 1985, The Three-Inch Golden Lotus is a deeply affecting, thoroughly enjoyable literary revelation.

Author : Dorothy Ko
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0520253906

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Footbinding is widely condemned as perverse & as symbolic of male domination over women. This study offers a more complex explanation of a thousand year practice, contending that the binding of women's feet in China was sustained by the interests of both women and men.

Author : Dorothy Ko
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520232839

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A well-written and beautifully illustrated book on foot binding and the exquisite shoes designed for the tiny feet.

Author : Ping Wang
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category :
ISBN : 1452904871

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An exploration of the history and cultural practice of footbinding in China reveals the traditions that contributed to and surrounded its thousand-year enforcement, as well as its related literature, music, contests, and rewards.

Author : Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1466814136

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By the author of A Wrinkle in Time, the conclusion to the Polly O'Keefe stories finds Polly taking an unforgettable trip to Europe, all by herself. Sixteen-year-old Polly is on her way to the island of Cyprus, where she will work as a gofer. The trip was arranged by Maximiliana Horne, a rich, brilliant artist who, with her longtime companion, Dr. Ursula Heschel, recently became the O'Keefe family's neighbor on Benne Seed Island. Max and Polly formed an instant friendship and Max took over Polly's education, giving her the encouragement and confidence that her isolated upbringing had not. Polly adored Max, even idolized her, until Max betrayed her. In Greece, Polly finds romance, danger, and unique friendships. But can she ever forgive Max? Books by Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time Quintet A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters An Acceptable Time A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle; adapted & illustrated by Hope Larson Intergalactic P.S. 3 by Madeleine L'Engle; illustrated by Hope Larson: A standalone story set in the world of A Wrinkle in Time. The Austin Family Chronicles Meet the Austins (Volume 1) The Moon by Night (Volume 2) The Young Unicorns (Volume 3) A Ring of Endless Light (Volume 4) A Newbery Honor book! Troubling a Star (Volume 5) The Polly O'Keefe books The Arm of the Starfish Dragons in the Waters A House Like a Lotus And Both Were Young Camilla The Joys of Love

Author : Jicai Feng
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Artists
ISBN : 9780670858057

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Hua, a talented young Chinese artist, falls victim to the Cultural Revolution in 1960's Communist China, when his talents lead him to be sent to an isolated factory, humiliated, deprived, tortured, and finally exiled.

Author : Tatjana Soli
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429934417

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A New York Times Best Seller! A New York Times Notable Book! A unique and sweeping debut novel of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War, as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men. On a stifling day in 1975, the North Vietnamese army is poised to roll into Saigon. As the fall of the city begins, two lovers make their way through the streets to escape to a new life. Helen Adams, an American photojournalist, must take leave of a war she is addicted to and a devastated country she has come to love. Linh, the Vietnamese man who loves her, must grapple with his own conflicted loyalties of heart and homeland. As they race to leave, they play out a drama of devotion and betrayal that spins them back through twelve war-torn years, beginning in the splendor of Angkor Wat, with their mentor, larger-than-life war correspondent Sam Darrow, once Helen's infuriating love and fiercest competitor, and Linh's secret keeper, boss and truest friend. Tatjana Soli paints a searing portrait of an American woman's struggle and triumph in Vietnam, a stirring canvas contrasting the wrenching horror of war and the treacherous narcotic of obsession with the redemptive power of love. Readers will be transfixed by this stunning novel of passion, duty and ambition among the ruins of war.

Author : Jicai Feng
Publisher : China Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 1996
Category : China
ISBN : 9780835125840

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Collection of true stories of people who lived through the Cultural Revolution in China from 1966 to 1976.