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Splendid Slippers: A Thousand Years of an Erotic Tradition

10 best books like Splendid Slippers: A Thousand Years of an Erotic Tradition (Beverley Jackson): Dogs and Demons: Tales From the Dark Side of Modern Japan, The Concubine's Children, Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China, Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba, Bound Feet & Western Dress, Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation, Autobiography of a Geisha, Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota, The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

Dogs and Demons: Tales From the Dark Side of Modern Japan
AuthorAlex Kerr
ISBN0809039435
A surprising assessment of the failures and successes of modern Japan.

In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the many facets of Japan's recent, and chronic, crises -- from the failure of its banks and pension funds to the decline of its once magnificent modern cinema. He is the first to give...
The Concubine's Children
AuthorDenise Chong
ISBN0140254277
The Concubine’s Children is the story of a family cleaved in two for the sake of a father’s dream. There’s Chan Sam, who left an "at home" wife in China to earn a living in "Gold Mountain"—North America. There’s May-ying, the wilful, seventeen-year-old concubine he bought, sight unseen,...
Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China
AuthorKang Zhengguo
ISBN0393064670
With clear vision this intimate memoir draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of "Liberation" in 1949 through the Tiananmen Square protests and after. The son of a professional family, Kang Zhengguo is a free spirit, drawn to literature. In Mao's China,...
Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba
AuthorChristina Vella
ISBN0807129623
Born into wealth in New Orleans in 1795 and married into misery fifteen years later, the Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba led a life ripe for novelization. Intimate Enemies, however, is the spellbinding true account of this resilient woman's life -- and the three men who most affected its course.
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Bound Feet & Western Dress
AuthorPang-Mei Natasha Chang
ISBN0385479646
"In China, a woman is nothing."

Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of...
Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation
AuthorVeronica Chambers
ISBN0743271564
Forget the stereotypes. Today's Japanese women are shattering them -- breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. Shopping-crazed schoolgirls in Hello Kitty costumes and the Harajuku girls Gwen Stefani helped make so popular have grabbed the media's attention....
Autobiography of a Geisha
AuthorSayo Masuda
ISBN0231129513
The glamorous world of big-city geisha is familiar to many readers, but little has been written of the life of hardship and pain led by the hot-springs-resort geisha. Indentured to geisha houses by families in desperate poverty, deprived of freedom and identity, these young women lived in a world of...
Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota
AuthorWallace Black Elk
ISBN0062500740
I wanted to like this book more than 3 stars... it probably deserves more than that. But I fall into the category of people Black Elk refers to as "educated". Which means I've been to school, college, etc and some of the more basic truths have probably been schooled right out of me. I did like the ideas he talks...
The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties
AuthorJudith Nies
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department...
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
AuthorMurasaki Shikibu
ISBN0486432041
Because women in ancient Japan enjoyed high status, they were well-educated and reasonably independent. They also produced much of the country's best literature. Three of these amazing ladies wrote these diaries, among them the highly skilled writer Murasaki Shikibu (ca. 973-1025 a.d.). A lady-in-waiting...
Watching the Tree
AuthorAdeline Yen Mah
ISBN0006531547
Adeline Yen Mah, whose autobiography ‘Falling Leaves’ is an international bestseller, here interweaves her own experiences with her views on Chinese thought and wisdom to create an illuminating and highly personal guide for Western readers.

Adeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, and...
The Moon Pearl
AuthorRuthanne Lum McCunn
ISBN0807083496
In the tradition of Thousand Pieces of Gold comes The Moon Pearl, the story of Rooster, Shadow, and Mei Ju, who become fast friends while members of a girls’ house, where young daughters are taught to become daughters-in-law. These girls, however, want neither to marry nor become nuns (the only options...
Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola: Nature, Accident, or Intentional?
AuthorLeonard G. Horowitz
ISBN0923550127
a thick compelling read. He's done a ton of research to link AIDS as a manmade virus and why it appeared in gay & central African populations simultaneously in the late 1970's. As a molecular biologist that deals with pathogenic microorganisms,I find his claims / theory deserve a cold hard look which...
Fresh Fruits
AuthorShoichi Aoki
ISBN0714845108
Presented in an identical format to Phaidon's previous Fruits, published in 2001, Fruits Too is a collection of Tokyo teenage street fashion portraits selected from Japan's premier street fanzine of the same title. Published every month by Shoichi Aoki, who is also the sole photographer for the magazine,...
Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan
AuthorGary P. Leupp
ISBN0520209001
Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated, but celebrated, male homosexual behavior. Few scholars have seriously studied the subject, and until now none have satisfactorily explained the origins of the tradition or elucidated how its conventions reflected class...
Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.
AuthorRoland Kelts
ISBN1403974756
As a Brit in Japan, I was intrigued by the parallels Kelts sees between the British invasion of the States in the 1960s and the Japanese invasion that has been ongoing since the late '70s or so. Just as the Brits learnt from US (black) culture and re-exported it back to white Americans, the Japanese manga...
Japanese Art
AuthorJoan Stanley-Baker
ISBN0500203261
The uniqueness of Japanese culture rests on the fact that, throughout its history, Japan has continually taken, adapted, and transformed diverse influences from Korea, China, the South Seas, Europe, and the Americas into distinct traditions of its own. Extensively revised, updated, and expanded...
Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha
AuthorLesley Downer
ISBN0767904907
Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, by geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary fictional creations, from Puccini's Madame Butterfly to Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. But as denizens of a world defined...
A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry
AuthorR. Howard Bloch
ISBN1400065496
The Bayeux Tapestry is the world’s most famous textile–an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history’s most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that...
A Life In Hand
AuthorHannah Hinchman
I remember the day I found this book. It was in a slipcased edition, with the book and a blank book, both paperback, at a Waldenbooks in Little Rock that no longer exists. It was a sunny afternoon and the light was coming in the front of the store. I bought it with a birthday gift certificate from my father....
Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China
AuthorWang Ping
ISBN0385721366
When Wang Ping was nine years old, she secretly set about binding her feet with elastic bands. Footbinding had by then been outlawed in China, women’s feet “liberated,” but at that young age she desperately wanted the tiny feet her grandmother had–deformed and malodorous as they were. By first...
Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding
AuthorDorothy Ko
ISBN0520218841
The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels, maid's quarters, and peasant households. Conventional views of footbinding as patriarchal oppression often...
Street: The Nylon Book of Global Style
AuthorNylon Magazine
ISBN0789315017
Ask any designer, fashion editor, or art director where the hottest trends are coming from, and they'll tell you it's from the streets of certain cities. And if you ask them what magazine gives the best, most authoritative coverage of these outsider fashion incubators, chances are they'll say Nylon.

Nylon...
Christian Dior
AuthorFarid Chenoune
ISBN2759401626
On the occasion of its 60th anniversary, the House of Dior presents a monumental recounting of its history, imparted through its exceptional legacy: 150 of its most beautiful dresses. This magnificent 400-page book unveils beautiful Haute Couture dresses, captured with original photography and...
The Egyptian Jukebox: A Conundrum
AuthorNick Bantock
ISBN0670849448
I’ve long enjoyed Nick Bantock’s work, and appreciated his way of creating complex visual and literary colleges with overlapping meanings and unusual connections. The Egyptian Jukebox was his first post Griffin and Sabine book, and I think it misses the mark. The ten drawers of the jukebox are...
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