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Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China Ping Wang, Wang Ping
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Aching for beauty : Footbinding in China, Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Originating in China in the 10th century, foot binding is the most blatant evidence of just how far people will go in the name of beauty. However, there is little strong textual evidence for the custom prior to the court of the Southern Tang dynasty in Nanjing, which celebrated the fame of its dancing girls, renowned for their tiny feet and beautiful bow shoes. From slender to plump and frail to graceful, shifting ideals of feminine aestheticism in Imperial China can be traced through paintings, sculptures and contemporary accounts of women famous for their beauty. Wang Ping - Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China Brothers Grimm - The Complete Fairy Tales (published by Vintage) but is it possible to have a pic of the last book? U can email me at babytaz_19@hotmail.com thanks. Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China In this award-winning inquiry, Wang Ping offers a fresh perspective on the centuries-old custom of footbinding. Aching for Beauty: A History of Footbinding in China – Wang Ping. Painful beauty practices - foot binding. She is the acclaimed author of the novel Foreign Devil, the story collection American Visa, the poetry collection Of Flesh & Spirit, and the academic study Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China. Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China (2000, University of Minnesota Press) won the Eugene Kayden Award for the Best Book in Humanities, and in 2002, Random House published its paperback. (2000) Aching for beauty: Footbinding in China , Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press. The short story collection American Visa (1994), the novel Foreign Devil (1996), two poetry collections Of Flesh & Spirit (1998) and The Magic Whip (2003), the cultural study Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China (2000), a. Standards of beauty have changed significantly throughout Chinese history.