Three-inch golden lotuses : achieving beauty through violence -- A brief history of footbinding -- Footbinding and the cult of the exemplary woman -- Edible beauty : food and foot fetishes in China -- Silken slippers : footbinding in Chinese erotica -- Binding, weaving, chatting : female bonding and writing -- From golden lotus to Prime Minister : a woman's tale living from mouth to mouth -- The fabric of masquerade.

Foreign devil : a novel / by Wang Ping. 

A novel about the Chinese cultural revolution and the kafkaesque maze of rules and regulations that dominate life to this day. The protagonist is a young woman who has to overcome the caprices of authorities to obtain a college education, which leads to a visa to the U.S. By the author of American Visa.