The Three-Inch Golden Lotus: A Novel on Foot Binding (Fiction from Modern China)

Feng Jicai

ISBN 10: 0824816064 / ISBN 13: 9780824816063

Published by University of Hawaii Press, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Three-Inch Golden Lotus: A Novel on Foot Binding (Fiction from Modern China)
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0824816064
• ISBN 13: 9780824816063
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 10 ounces

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Synopsis

This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her feet bound in the supreme Golden Lotus style when she is six years old. Events in Fragrants Lotus’ life twist and unfold in a series of witty and often wicked ironies, obliterating easy distinctions between kindness and cruelty, history and fable, forgery and authentic work. The novel’s waggish narrator exists in the tension between judgement and description, wryly deflating his reader’s certainties along the way. Written in 1985, The Three-Inch Golden Lotus is a deeply affecting, thoroughly enjoyable literary revelation.

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This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her fee bound in the supreme golden Lotus style when she is six years old. Events in Fragrant Lotus' life twist and unfold in a series of witty and often wicked ironies, obliterating easy distinctions between kindness and cruelty, history ad fable, forgery and authentic work.