Foot fascination in performance in China and Australia in the nineteenth century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12895697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosemary Farrell (La Trobe University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-27 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Early Popular Visual Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1746-0654 • E-ISSN: 1746-0662 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17460650902775336 |
| OpenAlex | W2055250446 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Chinese theatrical performances were part of the popular visual culture of colonial Australia. This article addresses a cultural fascination with Chinese female feet in China and Australia in the nineteenth century. It discusses the political and social interpretations of an advertised performance featuring Chinese females with small feet in Australia in 1860 and proposes new cultural understandings of the Chinese performers’ identity by the mainly male spectatorship
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · China · Chinese culture · Colonialism · Cultural identity · Foot (prosody · Identity (music · Literature · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Australian History and Society · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |