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bound feet & western dress
in china a woman is nothing . br thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well to do highly respected chinese family a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture . growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the communist revolution chang yu is life is marked by a series of rebellions her refusal as a child to let her mother bind her feet her scandalous divorce and her rise to vice president of chinas first womens bank in her later years . br in the alternating voices of two generations this dual memoir brings together a deeply textured portrait of a womans life in china with the very american story of yu is brilliant and assimilated grandniece struggling with her own search for identity and belonging . written in pitch perfect prose and alive with detail bound feet and western dress is the story of independent women struggling to emerge from centuries of customs and duty .
paperback anchor books doubleday 1997 isbn 0385479646
abridged n isbn 13 9780385479646 number of pages 288 publisher random house inc release date 874022400000