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AP/HUMA 1074 6.00
The Chinese Body in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Medicine, Food, and Footbinding
This course uses the Chinese body as an entry point into the richness and complexity of daily life as it was lived and experienced in Chinese history. It focuses on two preeminent concerns in Chinese civilization聴health and food聴and on one of the most mysterious, widely condemned, and little understood Chinese bodily practices聴footbinding.