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Statecraft and political economy on the Taiwan frontier 1600-1800
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ISBN: 0804720665 Year: 1993 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press


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Footbinding as fashion : ethnicity, labor, and status in traditional China
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ISBN: 0295744421 9780295744421 9780295744414 9780295744407 0295744405 0295744413 Year: 2018 Publisher: Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press,

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Previous studies of the practice of footbinding in imperial China have theorized that it expressed ethnic identity or that it served an economic function. By analyzing the popularity of footbinding in different places and times, Footbinding as Fashion investigates the claim that early Qing (1644–1911) attempts by Manchu rulers to ban footbinding made it a symbol of anti-Manchu sentiment and Han identity and led to the spread of the practice throughout all levels of society. Detailed case studies of Taiwan, Hebei, and Liaoning provinces exploit rich bodies of previously neglected ethnographic reports, economic surveys, and rare censuses of footbinding to challenge the significance of sedentary female labor and ethnic rivalries as factors leading to the hegemony of the footbinding fashion. The study concludes that, independently of identity politics and economic factors, variations in local status hierarchies and elite culture coupled with status competition and fear of ridicule for not binding girls’ feet best explain how a culturally arbitrary fashion such as footbinding could attain hegemonic status.


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Death at the opposite ends of the Eurasian continent : mortality trends in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1945
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ISBN: 9052603790 9786613050724 9048514681 1283050722 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam : Aksant,

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This volume examines contrasting historical demographics in Western Europe and Asia, taking the Netherlands and Taiwan as representative populations. Both countries have witnessed steady, continuous improvements in public health, disease prevention, and medical care. The contributors compare the impact of disease and mortality on the lives of individuals and families under very different cultural and social conditions. Death at the Opposite Ends of the Eurasian Continent analyzes a variety of factors, including maternal and infant mortality, as well as the accuracy of Taiwan's censuses and death reporting.

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