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Dorothy Ko. Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding.(Book review)
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China Review International
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September 22, 2006
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Dorothy Ko. Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2005. xix, 332 pp. Hardcover $29.95, ISBN 0-520-21884-1.
Dorothy Ko's new history of footbinding is a wonderfully imaginative, wide-ranging, and provocative study of a subject long in need of revisionism. She argues persuasively that there is not one footbinding but many, and that therefore any history of footbinding has to recognize first and foremost the multifaceted complexity of the phenomenon. She handily meets this challenge. She also suggests at numerous points in her study that the study of footbinding has been dominated by ...
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