Bound Feet, Young Hands: Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China
在俄國革命一百週年的時候，中國的Miéville講述了這個關鍵時刻的非凡故事。
1917年2月，俄羅斯是一個倒退的專制君主制，陷入了一場不受歡迎的戰爭。到10月份，經過一兩次革命後，它已成為世界上第一個工人國家，處於全球革命的先鋒隊。這種難以想像的轉變是如何發生的？
在從聖彼得堡和莫斯科一直延伸到蔓延的帝國最偏遠的村莊全景中，Miéville發現了1917年的所有激情，戲劇和奇異的災難，陰謀和靈感。介入長期的歷史辯論，這是一個驚人的人性的故事，在其最偉大的，最絕望的;這個文明的轉折點今天......
Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get even very young girls to sit still and work with their hands.
Interviews with 1,800 elderly women, many with bound feet, reveal the reality of girls' hand labor across the North China Plain, Northwest China, and Southwest China. As binding reshaped their feet, mothers disciplined girls to spin, weave, and do other handwork because many village families depended on selling such goods. When factories eliminated the economic value of handwork, footbinding died out. As the last generation of footbound women passes away, Bound Feet, Young Hands presents a data-driven examination of the social and economic aspects of this misunderstood custom.
Publisher:Stanford University Press
ISBN: 978-0804799553
原價 £ :35 NT$:1200
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