John Robert Shepherd is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Marriage and Mandatory Abortion among the 17th-Century Siraya and Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600–1800.
"It’s a comprehensive and convincing look at footbinding as a whole
that will serve as an invaluable resource for further research on
the practice, especially in Taiwan."
*Taipei Times*
"In his meticulously researched and elegantly argued book
Footbinding as Fashion, John Shepherd has made a major contribution
by introducing a new body of evidence, the 1905 and 1915 censuses
conducted by the Japanese colonial government in Taiwan."
*Journal of Asian Studies*
"Shepherd provides insight in his book as he draws from historical
records from diverse areas and times in China and Taiwan to
illuminate the practice...It is now difficult to getfirsthand data
about the practice from footbound women. Shepherd, however, has
produced a highly detailed, historical account of footbinding in
China."
*Journal of Anthropological Research*
"[A]n excellent book and contributes greatly to the literature on
footbinding. It is comprehensive in its scope and innovative in its
methodology and style of analysis. Above all, it is creative and
convincing in its approaches and conclusions and in contributing to
theoretical understandings of this custom."
*Asian Ethnology*
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