{"product_id":"footbinding-as-fashion-john-robert-shepherd-9780295744414","title":"Footbinding as Fashion: Ethnicity, Labor, and Status in Traditional China","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrevious studies of the practice of footbinding in imperial China have theorized that it expressed ethnic identity or that it served an economic function. By analyzing the popularity of footbinding in different places and times, \u003ci\u003eFootbinding as Fashion \u003c\/i\u003einvestigates the claim that early Qing (1644-1911) attempts by Manchu rulers to ban footbinding made it a symbol of anti-Manchu sentiment and Han identity and led to the spread of the practice throughout all levels of society. Detailed case studies of Taiwan, Hebei, and Liaoning provinces exploit rich bodies of previously neglected ethnographic reports, economic surveys, and rare censuses of footbinding to challenge the significance of sedentary female labor and ethnic rivalries as factors leading to the hegemony of the footbinding fashion. The study concludes that, independently of identity politics and economic factors, variations in local status hierarchies and elite culture coupled with status competition and fear of ridicule for not binding girls' feet best explain how a culturally arbitrary fashion such as footbinding could attain hegemonic status.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Robert Shepherd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295744413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295744414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.94d","brand":"John Robert Shepherd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44181070217471,"sku":"9780295744414","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b5a7af4d-4e57-4ac4-8187-4f9d5479e86d.jpg?v=1690258389","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/footbinding-as-fashion-john-robert-shepherd-9780295744414","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}