The Binding Chair: or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society
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ISBN: 0060934425 / Publisher: Harper Perennial, June 2001
The author of The Kiss tells the story of two women--a Chinese girl named May and her Western niece, Alice--whose lives intersect in turn-of-the-century Shanghai. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
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In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. Set in alluring Shanghai at the turn of the century, The Binding Chair intertwines the destinies of a Chinese woman determined to forget her past and a Western girl focused on the promises of the future.
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