The binding chair
Subtitle: a novel
By: Kathryn Harrison
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781841152684
Subjects: Interracial marriage; Footbinding; Chinese; Australians; History; Fiction
Description: Beautiful, charismatic, and destructive May escapes an arranged marriage in rural China for life in a Shanghai brothel, where, in 1899, she meets Arthur. Even as a member of the Foot Emancipation Society, he finds himself immediately and helplessly seduced by the sight of her bound feet.