The three-inch golden lotus / Feng Jicai ; translated from the Chinese by David Wakefield ; general editor, Howard Goldblatt.
A poor girl rises to high social status in China because of her unusually small feet. When her position is threatened by reformers out to abolish foot-binding she fights them. A study in social change.
| Uniform Title: | San cun jin lian.
English Fiction from modern China. |
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| Language: | English |
| Language of the Original: |
Chinese |
| Published: |
Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[1994], ©1994.
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| Series: | Fiction from modern China.
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| Physical Description: | 239 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Some idle talk before the story
- The little girl, Fragrant Lotus
- The weird happenings really begin
- And again: the weird happenings really begin
- Several gentlemen display their learning
- Competition and defeat
- Beyond the immortal lies a God
- The four marvels of Tianjin
- With poetry, painting, song, dream, mist, and wine
- A true talent does not reveal himself
- Three battles
- When false becomes true, true is false
- And the eyes close
- Descent into chaos
- Bind unbind bind unbind bind unbind bind
- Present Pretty Plower of the Natural Foot Society
- 37 Gloucester street.