"John Shepherd confronts the hypothesis that the Qing conquest government attempted to proscribe footbinding in China soon after it captured Beijing in 1644, and that these policies produced a reaction among Chinese elites that made footbinding as a marker of Chinese identity in the conquest state, eventually accruing even more ideological significance in relation to subordination of women and anx...
"John Shepherd confronts the hypothesis that the Qing conquest government attempted to proscribe footbinding in China soon after it captured Beijing in 1644, and that these policies produced a reaction among Chinese elites that made footbinding as a marker of Chinese identity in the conquest state, eventually accruing even more ideological significance in relation to subordination of women and anx...