Bound Feet & Western Dress

副标题: A Memoir

ISBN: 9780385479646

出版社: Anchor

出版年: 1997-9-15

页数: 215

定价: USD 15.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

"In China, a woman is nothing."

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-i's 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 China's first women's bank in her later years.

In the alternating voices of two generations, this dual memoir brings together a deeply textured portrait of a woman's life in China with the very American story of Yu-i's 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.

作者简介

张邦梅，张幼仪的侄孙女。出生于波士顿，毕业哈佛大学东亚研究系，主修中国文学；哥伦比亚大学法律硕士，曾于纽约担任律师。

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