Dorothy Ko Books
The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China
By Dorothy Ko
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Read MoreWomen and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China Korea and Japan
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"Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relat...
Read MoreEvery Step a Lotus
By Dorothy Ko
"In Every Step a Lotus, Dorothy Ko embarks on a fascinating exploration of the practice of footbinding in China, explaining its origins, purpose, and spread before the nineteenth century. She uses...
Read MoreTeachers of the Inner Chambers
By Dorothy Ko
Rejecting popular image and accepted scholarship on the status of women in premodern China, this pathbreaking work argues that literate gentrywomen in seventeenth-century Jiangnan were far from opp...
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