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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 �
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Blue Desert
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Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt