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When Chinese women bound their daughters' feet, many consequences ensued. The most obvious of these was to impress upon a child's body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. This book asks why such drastic action made sense in the families that performed it.

This monumental work reveals the continuities that underlie the changing surface of Chinese life from late imperial days to modern times. With a perspective that encompasses a thousand years of Chinese history, China's Motor provides a view of the social, economic, and political principles that have prompted people in widely varying circumstances to act, believe, and behave in ways that are labeled as Chinese.This original reinterpretation of ...