Data Portal @ linkeddatafragments.org

Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008807588/catalog> ?p ?o. }

• catalog abstract ""In Every Step a Lotus, Dorothy Ko embarks on a fascinating exploration of the practice of footbinding in China, explaining its origins, purpose, and spread before the nineteenth century. She uses women's own voices to reconstruct the inner chambers of a Chinese house where women with bound feet lived and worked. Focusing on the material aspects of footbinding and shoemaking - the tools needed, the procedures, the wealth of symbolism in the shoes, and the amazing regional variations in style - she contends that footbinding was a reasonable course of action for a woman who lived in a Confucian culture that placed the highest moral value on domesticity, motherhood, and handiwork. Her absorbing, superbly detailed, and beautifully written book demonstrates that in the women's eyes, footbinding had less to do with the exotic or the sublime than with the mundane business of having to live in a woman's body in a man's world." "Footbinding was likely to have started in the tenth century among palace dancers. Ironically, it was meant not to cripple but to enhance the grace. Its meaning shifted dramatically as it became domesticated in the subsequent centuries, though the original hint of sensuality did not entirely disappear. This contradictory image of footbinding as at once degenerate and virtuous, grotesque and refined, is embodied in the key symbol for the practice - the lotus blossom, being both a Buddhist sign of piety and a poetic allusion to sensory pleasures." "Every Step a Lotus includes almost one hundred illustrations of shoes from different regions of China, material paraphernalia associated with the customs and rituals of footbinding, and historical images that contextualize the narrative. Most of the shoes, from the collection of The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, have not been exhibited before. Readers will come away from the book with a richer understanding of why footbinding carries such force as a symbol and why, long after its demise, it continues to exercise a powerful grip on our imagination."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Shoes for bound feet".
• catalog contributor b12350368.
• catalog contributor b12350369.
• catalog created "2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
• catalog description ""Every Step a Lotus includes almost one hundred illustrations of shoes from different regions of China, material paraphernalia associated with the customs and rituals of footbinding, and historical images that contextualize the narrative. Most of the shoes, from the collection of The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, have not been exhibited before. Readers will come away from the book with a richer understanding of why footbinding carries such force as a symbol and why, long after its demise, it continues to exercise a powerful grip on our imagination."--Jacket.".
• catalog description ""Footbinding was likely to have started in the tenth century among palace dancers. Ironically, it was meant not to cripple but to enhance the grace. Its meaning shifted dramatically as it became domesticated in the subsequent centuries, though the original hint of sensuality did not entirely disappear. This contradictory image of footbinding as at once degenerate and virtuous, grotesque and refined, is embodied in the key symbol for the practice - the lotus blossom, being both a Buddhist sign of piety and a poetic allusion to sensory pleasures."".
• catalog description ""In Every Step a Lotus, Dorothy Ko embarks on a fascinating exploration of the practice of footbinding in China, explaining its origins, purpose, and spread before the nineteenth century. She uses women's own voices to reconstruct the inner chambers of a Chinese house where women with bound feet lived and worked. Focusing on the material aspects of footbinding and shoemaking - the tools needed, the procedures, the wealth of symbolism in the shoes, and the amazing regional variations in style - she contends that footbinding was a reasonable course of action for a woman who lived in a Confucian culture that placed the highest moral value on domesticity, motherhood, and handiwork.".
• catalog description "Her absorbing, superbly detailed, and beautifully written book demonstrates that in the women's eyes, footbinding had less to do with the exotic or the sublime than with the mundane business of having to live in a woman's body in a man's world."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (152-153) and index.".
• catalog description "Origins. -- The ties that bind. -- Bodies of work. -- The speaking shoe. -- A new world.".
• catalog extent "162 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Every step a lotus.".
• catalog identifier "0520232836 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0520232844 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Every step a lotus.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
• catalog relation "Every step a lotus.".
• catalog spatial "China".
• catalog spatial "China.".
• catalog subject "391.4/1 21".
• catalog subject "Bata Shoe Museum Foundation Catalogs.".
• catalog subject "Body image in women China History.".
• catalog subject "Footbinding China.".
• catalog subject "GT498.F66 K6 2001".
• catalog subject "Shoes China History.".
• catalog subject "Shoes China.".
• catalog subject "Women China Social conditions.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Origins. -- The ties that bind. -- Bodies of work. -- The speaking shoe. -- A new world.".
• catalog title "Every step a lotus : shoes for bound feet / Dorothy Ko.".
• catalog title "Shoes for bound feet".
• catalog type "text".