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When Wang Ping was nine years old, she secretly set about binding her feet with elastic bands. Footbinding had by then been outlawed in China, women’s feet �
Aching for Beauty
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Pages: 265
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Categories: History
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Publisher Fact Sheet A fascinating & haunting exploration of the bound foot in Chinese culture.
Aching for Beauty
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Pages: 283
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An exploration of the history and cultural practice of footbinding in China reveals the traditions that contributed to and surrounded its thousand-year enforcem
AKASHVANI
Language: en
Pages: 64
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1981-05-31 - Publisher: All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi

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"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of br
Purposeful Pain
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Pain is an evolutionary and adaptive mechanism to prevent harm to an individual. Beyond this, how it is defined, expressed, and borne is dictated culturally. Th