Bound Feet & Western Dress: A Memoir

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“In China, a woman is nothing.”

Thus begins the saga of a woman born on the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese circle of relatives, a woman who continually defied the expectancies of her circle of relatives and the traditions of her culture. Growing up within the perilous years between the autumn 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 upward thrust to Vice President of China’s first women’s bank in her later years.

In the alternating voices of two generations, this dual memoir 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, being affected by her own seek for identity and belonging. Written in pitch-absolute best prose and alive with detail, Bound Feet and Western Dress is the tale of independent women struggling to emerge from centuries of customs and duty.

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