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By: Donna Jo Napoli.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Stepmothers -- Fiction; Footbinding -- Fiction; Sex role -- Fiction; China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- Juvenile fiction; China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Other titles: Cinderella. English.
Description: In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.