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Bound Feet and Western Dress : A Memoir by Pang-Mei Natasha Chang (1997, Trade Paperback)

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Bound Feet & Western Dress, Paperback by Chang, Pang-Mei Natasha, ISBN 0385479646, ISBN-13 9780385479646, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Alternates the stories of the author's great aunt, growing up in the years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist revolution, with the author's own search for identity, belonging, and her family heritage

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100385479646

ISBN-139780385479646

eBay Product ID (ePID)139059

Product Key Features

Book TitleBound Feet and Western Dress : a Memoir

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Women's Studies, Asia / China, Customs & Traditions

Publication Year1997

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorPang-Mei Natasha Chang

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight6.9 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN95-049479

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"A gripping, candid, dual memoir that relates the stories of great-aunt and great-niece andtheir individual struggle to reconcile Chinese tradition and modern Western ideas." -- South China Morning Post

Dewey Decimal305.42/0951

Synopsis"In China, a woman is nothing." Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Chang Yu-i's life is marked by a series of rebellions: her refusal as a child to let her mother bind her feet, her scandalous divorce, and her rise to Vice President of China's first women's bank in her later years. In the alternating voices of two generations, this dual memoir brings together a deeply textured portrait of a woman's life in China with the very American story of Yu-i's brilliant and assimilated grandniece, struggling with her own search for identity and belonging. Written in pitch-perfect prose and alive with detail, Bound Feet and Western Dress is the story of independent women struggling to emerge from centuries of customs and duty., A harrowing dual memoir that braids the story of a Chinese-American woman's search for identity with the dramatic tale of her great-aunt, who was born at the turn of the century in tradition-bound China and went on to become Vice President of China's first women's bank. "In China, a woman is nothing." Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Chang Yu-i's life is marked by a series of rebellions: her refusal as a child to let her mother bind her feet, her scandalous divorce, and her rise to Vice President of China's first women's bank in her later years. In the alternating voices of two generations, this literary debut brings together a deeply textured portrait of a woman's life in China with the very American story of Yu-i's brilliant and assimilated grandniece, struggling with her own search for identity and belonging. Written in pitch-perfect prose and alive with detail, Bound Feet and Western Dress is the story of independent women struggling to emerge from centuries of customs and duty.

LC Classification NumberHQ1767