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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.
[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 * 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 * 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 * 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 *
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