Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Mark Selden, Chinese Village, Socialist State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991 ( Read more... )

Dorothy Ko, "Jazzing into Modernity: High Heels, Platforms, and Lotus Shoes.". In China Chic: East Meets West, ed. Valerie Steele & John S. Major, 119-131 (New Haven: Yale University Press), 1999.

I like Dorothy Ko - rather, her work - cranky as it sometimes makes me. Her eagerly anticipated book on foot binding, Cinderella's Sisters: A ( Read more... )

阮玲玉 [The Actress/Center Stage], dir. 關錦鵬 Stanley Kwan, starring 張曼玉 Maggie Cheung, 1991.


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Antonia Finnane, "A Place in the Nation: Yangzhou and the Idle Talk Controversy of 1934" The Journal of Asian Studies vol. 53, no. 4 (Nov., 1994): 1150-1174 ( Read more... )