num_pages: 239
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Three-Inch Golden Lotus: A Novel on Foot Binding
titlecomplete: The Three-Inch Golden Lotus: A Novel on Foot Binding
genres: School, Womens, Novels, Chinese Literature, Asia, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, China
ratings_count: 499
places: China
publisher: University of Hawaii Press