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• catalog abstract "The author of The Kiss tells the story of two women whose lives intersect in turn-of-the-century Shanghai; a Chinese girl named Mai, and her Western niece, Alice. 50,000 first printing. In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves in The Binding Chair; or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society, a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. Set in alluring Shanghai at the turn of the century, The Binding Chair intertwines the destinies of a Chinese woman determined to forget her past and a Western girl focused on the promises of the future. Beautiful, charismatic, destructive May, escapes an arranged marriage in rural nineteenth-century China for life in a Shanghai brothel, where she meets Arthur, an Australian whose philanthropic pursuits lead him into one scrape after another. As a member of the Foot Emancipation Society, Arthur calls on May not for his pleasure but for her rehabilitation, only to find himself immediately and helplessly seduced by the sight of her bound feet. Reforming May is out of the question, so love-struck Arthur marries her instead and brings her home to live with him, his sister and brother-in-law, and their two girls, Alice and Cecily. In Alice, May sees the possibility of redemption: a surrogate for a child she has lost. And it is to May that Alice turns for the love her own mother withholds. But when the twelve-year-old is caught preparing her aunt's opium pipe, she is shipped off to a London boarding school, far from the dangerous influence of the woman who will come to reclaim her and to control the whole family. The Binding Chair unfolds among scenes of astonishing beauty and cruelty, in a lawless place where traditions and cultures clash, and where tragedy threatens a world built on the banks of unsettled waters, from the bustling Whangpoo River to the lake of blood in the Chinese afterworld. By turns shocking, exquisite, and hilarious, The Binding Chair is another spellbinding literary triumph by the writer whose work Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times has called "powerful and hypnotic."".
• catalog alternative "Binding chair".
• catalog alternative "Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society".
• catalog contributor b11607851.
• catalog coverage "France, Southern Fiction.".
• catalog coverage "Shanghai (China) Fiction.".
• catalog created "c2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "c2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
• catalog description "Apprenticeship -- Czar's clock -- Binding chair -- Construction train -- Twice thwarted -- Apparitions -- View from the gardener's back -- Short history of a prodigy -- Long-handled spoon -- Seance -- Weakness for Russian officers -- Visit from the foot emancipation society -- Adventure and arrest -- Search undertaken -- Bright, worthless coins -- Year of the foot tax -- Cure for lisping -- Discipline for girls -- Ten-in-one -- Justice served -- Dolly cleans house -- Circumnavigation -- Heroes of the great war -- Syntax and symmetry -- Spanish influenza -- Drink the water -- Pipe dreams of a rat -- Head of the family -- Hospitality -- Facility with language -- Sunny coast of France -- Shoes for walking -- Proposal -- Promenade -- Birthday celebration -- Bay of angels.".
• catalog description "As a member of the Foot Emancipation Society, Arthur calls on May not for his pleasure but for her rehabilitation, only to find himself immediately and helplessly seduced by the sight of her bound feet. Reforming May is out of the question, so love-struck Arthur marries her instead and brings her home to live with him, his sister and brother-in-law, and their two girls, Alice and Cecily. In Alice, May sees the possibility of redemption: a surrogate for a child she has lost. And it is to May that Alice turns for the love her own mother withholds. But when the twelve-year-old is caught preparing her aunt's opium pipe, she is shipped off to a London boarding school, far from the dangerous influence of the woman who will come to reclaim her and to control the whole family. ".
• catalog description "The Binding Chair unfolds among scenes of astonishing beauty and cruelty, in a lawless place where traditions and cultures clash, and where tragedy threatens a world built on the banks of unsettled waters, from the bustling Whangpoo River to the lake of blood in the Chinese afterworld. By turns shocking, exquisite, and hilarious, The Binding Chair is another spellbinding literary triumph by the writer whose work Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times has called "powerful and hypnotic."".
• catalog description "The author of The Kiss tells the story of two women whose lives intersect in turn-of-the-century Shanghai; a Chinese girl named Mai, and her Western niece, Alice. 50,000 first printing. In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves in The Binding Chair; or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society, a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. Set in alluring Shanghai at the turn of the century, The Binding Chair intertwines the destinies of a Chinese woman determined to forget her past and a Western girl focused on the promises of the future. Beautiful, charismatic, destructive May, escapes an arranged marriage in rural nineteenth-century China for life in a Shanghai brothel, where she meets Arthur, an Australian whose philanthropic pursuits lead him into one scrape after another. ".
• catalog extent "xiii, 312 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Binding chair, or, A visit from the Foot Emancipation Society.".
• catalog identifier "0679450009 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Binding chair, or, A visit from the Foot Emancipation Society.".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "c2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Random House,".
• catalog relation "Binding chair, or, A visit from the Foot Emancipation Society.".
• catalog spatial "China Shanghai".
• catalog spatial "China".
• catalog spatial "France, Southern Fiction.".
• catalog spatial "Shanghai (China) Fiction.".
• catalog subject "813/.54 21".
• catalog subject "Australians China Shanghai Fiction.".
• catalog subject "Domestic fiction.".
• catalog subject "Footbinding Fiction.".
• catalog subject "Interracial marriage Fiction.".
• catalog subject "Married women Fiction.".
• catalog subject "PS3558.A67136 V57 2000".
• catalog subject "Women China Social conditions Fiction.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Apprenticeship -- Czar's clock -- Binding chair -- Construction train -- Twice thwarted -- Apparitions -- View from the gardener's back -- Short history of a prodigy -- Long-handled spoon -- Seance -- Weakness for Russian officers -- Visit from the foot emancipation society -- Adventure and arrest -- Search undertaken -- Bright, worthless coins -- Year of the foot tax -- Cure for lisping -- Discipline for girls -- Ten-in-one -- Justice served -- Dolly cleans house -- Circumnavigation -- Heroes of the great war -- Syntax and symmetry -- Spanish influenza -- Drink the water -- Pipe dreams of a rat -- Head of the family -- Hospitality -- Facility with language -- Sunny coast of France -- Shoes for walking -- Proposal -- Promenade -- Birthday celebration -- Bay of angels.".
• catalog title "Binding chair".
• catalog title "The binding chair, or, A visit from the Foot Emancipation Society : a novel / Kathryn Harrison.".
• catalog title "Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society".
• catalog type "Domestic fiction. lcsh".
• catalog type "Domestic fiction.".
• catalog type "Historical fiction. gsafd".
• catalog type "text".