Beverley Jackson:
Has been a photojournalist, newspaper columnist, civic leader, textile scholar, and Asian art collector and lecturer. She resides in Santa Barbara, California.

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Kingfisher Blue
ISBN: 1580082610 - 2002 Ten Speed Press

Treasures of an Ancient Chinese Art. Many cultures around the world have used bird feathers to adorn themselves, the Chinese, however, took the art to extra-ordinary levels of both husbandry in breeding the birds to supply the artists. China was a society enamored of these cyanic birds.

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Splendid Slippers
ISBN: 0898159571 - 1997 Ten Speed Press

A thousand years ago in China, the curious custom of breaking and binding the feet into the shape of a pointed lotus bud began. Since then, generations of women and girls have tottered through life on three- to four-inch "lotus" feet encased in exquisitely embroidered, excruciatingly tiny "lotus" shoes.

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