Bound Feet & Western Dress
A Memoir
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 September 1997
Summary
A harrowing dual memoir that braids the story of a Chinese-American woman’s search for identity with the dramatic tale of her great-aunt, who was born at the turn of the century in tradition-bound China and went on to become Vice President of China’s first women’s bank.“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 o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385479646 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385479646 |
| Author: | Pang-Mei Natasha Chang |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Anchor Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 1997 |
| Weight: | 196g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 133mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
“A gripping, candid, dual memoir that relates the stories of great-aunt and great-niece andtheir individual struggle to reconcile Chinese tradition and modern Western ideas.” —South China Morning Post
About The Author
Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
PANG-MEI NATASHA CHANG was raised in Connecticut. She received her B.A. in Chinese Studies from Harvard and a J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law. She practiced law in New York City before moving to Moscow, where she currently resides with her husband. Bound Feet and Western Dress is her first book.
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