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  1. The Three-Inch Golden Lotus
    A Novel on Foot Binding
    Author: Jicai, Feng
    Published: [2021]; © 1994
    Publisher:  University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu

    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,... more

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    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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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780824843021
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    Series: Fiction from Modern China ; 15
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Footbinding
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (208 Seiten)
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)

  2. The Three-Inch Golden Lotus
    A Novel on Foot Binding
    Author: Jicai, Feng
    Published: [2021]; © 1994
    Publisher:  University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu

    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,... more

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780824843021
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    Series: Fiction from Modern China ; 15
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Footbinding
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (208 Seiten)
    Notes:

    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)

  3. The Three-Inch Golden Lotus
    A Novel on Foot Binding
    Author: Jicai, Feng
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Some Idle Talk Before the Story -- 1 The Little Girl, Fragrant Lotus -- 2 The Weird Happenings Really Begin -- 3 And Again : The Weird Happenings Really Begin -- 4 Several Gentlemen Display Their Learning -- 5 Competition... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Some Idle Talk Before the Story -- 1 The Little Girl, Fragrant Lotus -- 2 The Weird Happenings Really Begin -- 3 And Again : The Weird Happenings Really Begin -- 4 Several Gentlemen Display Their Learning -- 5 Competition and Defeat -- 6 Beyond the Immortal Lies a God -- 7 The Four Marvels of Tianjin -- 8 Poetry, Painting, Song, Dream, Mist, and -- 9 A True Talent Does Not Reveal Himself -- 10 Three Battles -- 11 When False Becomes True, True Is False -- 12 And the Eyes Close -- 13 Descent into Chaos -- 14 Bind Unbind Bind Unbind Bind Unbind Bind -- 15 President Pretty Flower of the Natural Foot Society -- 16 37 Gloucester Street -- Translator's Note -- Translator's Postscript 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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780824843021
    Other identifier:
    Series: Fiction from Modern China ; 15
    Subjects: Footbinding; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (208 p)