Monday, May 14, 2007

Chang, Pang-Mei. Bound Feet & Western Dress.

Chang, Pang-Mei. Bound Feet & Western Dress.
Tells the story of the author's great-aunt Chang Yu-i, a woman who challenged Chinese tradition by refusing to have her feet bound, marrying and divorcing preeminent poet Hsu Chih-mo, and running the Shanghai Women's Savings Bank during the 1930s.

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