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- catalog abstract "As a first-generation Chinese-American dutifully majoring in Chinese studies, Pang-Mei Natasha Chang stumbled across the name of her great-aunt Chang Yu-i in a history book. To Pang-Mei's astonishment, her eighty-three-year-old aunt, best known in the family for her retiring ways and masculine manner, had once been married to Hsu Chih-mo, China's preeminent modern poet, had run the Shanghai Women's Savings Bank during the 1930s, and had suffered the anguish of enduring what is considered China's first Western-style divorce. Could this same woman, whom Pang-Mei regarded as part respected elder and part unsophisticated immigrant, be the same romantic heroine from her textbooks? Over the next few years, Pang-Mei spent long afternoons with Yu-i drawing forth her story - an unforgettable saga of a woman, born in Shanghai at the turn of the century to a highly respected, well-to-do family, who continually defied the expectations of her class and culture. "In China, a woman is nothing," began Yu-i over tea and dumplings. "This is the first lesson I want to give so that you will understand." Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last Emperor and the Communist Revolution, Yu-i led a life marked by a series of rebellions that changed the course of her life, including the first and most lasting: her refusal to have her feet bound. And through Yu-i's stories, Pang-Mei comes to understand something of her own ambivalences regarding her Chinese heritage and the ever-present tug between familial duty and individual desire.".
- catalog alternative "Bound feet and Western dress".
- catalog contributor b9841255.
- catalog coverage "China Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""In China, a woman is nothing," began Yu-i over tea and dumplings. "This is the first lesson I want to give so that you will understand." Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last Emperor and the Communist Revolution, Yu-i led a life marked by a series of rebellions that changed the course of her life, including the first and most lasting: her refusal to have her feet bound. And through Yu-i's stories, Pang-Mei comes to understand something of her own ambivalences regarding her Chinese heritage and the ever-present tug between familial duty and individual desire.".
- catalog description "As a first-generation Chinese-American dutifully majoring in Chinese studies, Pang-Mei Natasha Chang stumbled across the name of her great-aunt Chang Yu-i in a history book. To Pang-Mei's astonishment, her eighty-three-year-old aunt, best known in the family for her retiring ways and masculine manner, had once been married to Hsu Chih-mo, China's preeminent modern poet, had run the Shanghai Women's Savings Bank during the 1930s, and had suffered the anguish of enduring what is considered China's first Western-style divorce. Could this same woman, whom Pang-Mei regarded as part respected elder and part unsophisticated immigrant, be the same romantic heroine from her textbooks? Over the next few years, Pang-Mei spent long afternoons with Yu-i drawing forth her story - an unforgettable saga of a woman, born in Shanghai at the turn of the century to a highly respected, well-to-do family, who continually defied the expectations of her class and culture.".
- catalog description "Chronology of events -- A woman is nothing -- Lotus petals -- Fortune, rank, longevity, happiness -- Beautiful country, bright nation -- A girl's education -- Plum blossom in snow -- Neither three nor four -- According to your wishes -- Bound feet and Western dress -- A better wife -- O poet! -- Sentimental journey -- A person's title -- The end of my story.".
- catalog extent "xx, 215 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Bound feet & Western dress.".
- catalog identifier "0385479638".
- catalog isFormatOf "Bound feet & Western dress.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Doubleday,".
- catalog relation "Bound feet & Western dress.".
- catalog spatial "China Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "China".
- catalog subject "305.42/0951 20".
- catalog subject "Chinese Americans Biography.".
- catalog subject "Feminists China Biography.".
- catalog subject "HQ1767 .C434 1996".
- catalog subject "Women China Social conditions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Chronology of events -- A woman is nothing -- Lotus petals -- Fortune, rank, longevity, happiness -- Beautiful country, bright nation -- A girl's education -- Plum blossom in snow -- Neither three nor four -- According to your wishes -- Bound feet and Western dress -- A better wife -- O poet! -- Sentimental journey -- A person's title -- The end of my story.".
- catalog title "Bound feet & Western dress / Pang-Mei Natasha Chang.".
- catalog title "Bound feet and Western dress".
- catalog type "text".