foot-binding

The Chinese continued to see foot binding as a beautiful act although it was illegal (Jackson 48).

Although concubinage and foot-binding have been outlawed, the woman's role is still considered to be in the home.

Perhaps the most infamous symbol of the oppression of Chinese women, foot-binding, went on until the beginning of the 20th century.

Super high heels are very impractical, and with the damage they do, wearing them might even be described as modern-day foot binding!

But foot binding is not coming back any time soon: gender equality is a legacy of communism that appears to be here to stay.

We may have moved away from foot-binding, but society is still obsessed with forcing people into images of ideal beauty.

The writer's praise to women's foot-binding and his hatred towards prostitute imply his resistance against the Yuan Dynasty.

My own grandmother was subjected to the agony and humiliation of foot-binding.

As Manchu women rejected the traditional Chinese practice of foot binding, their feet appeared large in the eyes of their Chinese subjects.

yeah I'd rather suffer a foot binding, even if it meant I couldn't walk again, than have my manhood cut off.

At ? rst, foot-binding was the sole privilege of the high class.

Foot Binding was practiced for few hundred years in the past in China. In the beginning it was only a body decoration.

The nationalist revolution sparked the flame that was to destroy foot binding for good.

But from the foot-binding cloth hanging from the elm tree Second Granny doddered into the panting of wild dogs and the wings of vultures.

After the Opium War, coincidental with the influx of bourgeois democratic ideas, anti-foot-binding ideas arose in modern China.

Wang said Chinese censors asked that some of the gruesome sounds related to foot binding be dialed down.

They inveighed against slavery, concubinage , foot binding, arranged marriage, cruel punishments, and the use of opium.

However, old habits die hard, and there was still foot-binding going on well into the 1930's in some areas.

Foot-binding was horrific, too. Adults do cruel things to children, of both sexes.

Before long, we will consider sex slavery, honor killings and acid attacks as unfathomable as foot-binding.

It is important to mention that some debate and are even offended by the erotic stories behind foot-binding.

At that time foot binding was to make dancing steps more graceful and was harmless to the health.

He severely criticized foot binding and launched the movement of loosening of foot binding in order to promote women education.

Back to foot-binding, perhaps?

This is really crazy, since it's foot-binding the spirit going on.

On the FOOT- BINDING of. The Ancient Chinese Women in its Initial and Prime Stages

Analysis on Opposite Force of the Campaign of Non-foot-binding in the End of the Qing Dynasty

Yes, traditional Chinese culture has been foolish and ignorant on foot binding, like on some other things;

the anti - foot - binding movement in modern shandong province

Foot-binding in the Ancient Poetry and Prose

On the Anti-foot-binding Ideas in Modern China