Bound Feet & Western Dress
A Memoir
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Bound Feet & Western Dress
Narrated by:
Nancy Wu
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Narrated by:
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Nancy Wu
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Written by:
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Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
About this listen
"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 literary debut 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.
Critic Reviews
"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
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