The Three-Inch Golden Lotus : : A Novel on Foot Binding / / Feng Jicai.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Jicai, Feng,
• TeilnehmendeR: Wakefield, David.
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Fiction from Modern China ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Some Idle Talk Before the Story --; 1 The Little Girl, Fragrant Lotus --; 2 The Weird Happenings Really Begin --; 3 And Again : The Weird Happenings Really Begin --; 4 Several Gentlemen Display Their Learning --; 5 Competition and Defeat --; 6 Beyond the Immortal Lies a God --; 7 The Four Marvels of Tianjin --; 8 Poetry, Painting, Song, Dream, Mist, and --; 9 A True Talent Does Not Reveal Himself --; 10 Three Battles --; 11 When False Becomes True, True Is False --; 12 And the Eyes Close --; 13 Descent into Chaos --; 14 Bind Unbind Bind Unbind Bind Unbind Bind --; 15 President Pretty Flower of the Natural Foot Society --; 16 37 Gloucester Street --; Translator's Note --; Translator's Postscript
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824843021; 9783110564150
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824843021
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Feng Jicai.

This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her feet bound in the supreme Golden Lotus style when she is six years old. Events in Fragrants Lotus’ life twist and unfold in a series of witty and often wicked ironies, obliterating easy distinctions between kindness and cruelty, history and fable, forgery and authentic work. The novel’s waggish narrator exists in the tension between judgement and description, wryly deflating his reader’s certainties along the way. Written in 1985, The Three-Inch Golden Lotus is a deeply affecting, thoroughly enjoyable literary revelation.