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Foot-binding was the tradition of binding a young daughter's feet by wrapping cloth around their feet tightly and forcing them to walk until their bones broke and were easier to mold and change, then tightening the bindings.
Books shelved as foot-binding: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See, Peony in Love by Lisa See, Bound by Donna Jo Napoli, Ties That Bind, Ties That...
1 sty 2008 · In the Haishan region of northern Taiwan, the percentage of boundfootedness among 242 women born prior to the Japanese abolition of the custom averaged 85.2 percent, with substantial differences in the rates according to the varied forms of marriage (Wolf and Huang, 1980: 265).
Dorothy Ko's book puts footbinding in as complete a context as I have encountered. She includes excerpts from texts of footbinding fetishists, images, stories of small foot contests, and the cultural implications of the size of a woman's foot.
1 sty 1999 · Ailin, the third daughter of a wealthy Chinese family in Nanjing in 1911, is smart, headstrong, and slightly spoiled. When she is five, she fights at having her feet bound. Her mother and grandmother are horrified, while her older sister is sympathetic. Her father surprises them all.
29 cze 2019 · The Japanese made such detailed records not only to keep tabs on the population and prove themselves as “model” colonizers to the international world, but also because they sought to eradicate the “three degenerate practices” among local people: footbinding, queue wearing and opium smoking.
The first chapter explains in detail the practice of foot binding, the agony of bones breaking, the persistent, painful hindrance to mobility, and the subsequent match with a high-ranking general seduced by these small feet.
