The Search for the Beautiful Woman: A Cultural History of Japanese and Chinese Beauty by Kyoko Iriye Selden, Cho Kyo

The Search for the Beautiful Woman: A Cultural History of Japanese and Chinese Beauty

Kyoko Iriye Selden, Cho Kyo

287 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced
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While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women. But in J...

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