Dorothy Ko is Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of "Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet "(California, 2001). JaHyun Kim Haboush is King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University and the editor and translator of "The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea "(California, 1996). Joan R. Piggott is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University and the author of "The Emergence of Japanese Kingship "(1997).