Chinese Working-Class Lives: Getting By in Taiwan, Hill Gates
Автор: Gates, Susan Clayton, David Hill, Douglas Goodhart, Pippa Sykes, Julie Название: Oxford reading tree treetops fiction: level 16: pack of 6 ISBN: 0198448449 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198448440 Издательство: Oxford Education Рейтинг: Цена: 11237.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Novels from top authors with the variety children need to develop a love of reading! TreeTops Fiction offers a wide range of engaging stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading tastes and interests. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book. This pack contains 6 different books.
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.
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