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Foot binding (simplified Chinese: 缠足; traditional Chinese: 纏足; pinyin: chánzú), or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls to change their shape and size.
May 22, 2017 · In the past eight years, she has photographed 50 women with bound feet in rural China. Most live in an area two hours outside of Jinan, Shandong province. Here we see Zhao Hua Hong's feet.
Foot binding was the practice of curling young girls' feet to modify their shape in ancient China. See why and how women bound their feet here.
Mar 19, 2007 · Millions of Chinese women bound their feet, a status symbol that allowed them to marry into money. Footbinding was banned in 1912, but some women continued to do it in secret.
Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon. She entranced Emperor Li Yu by dancing on her toes...
2. Picture: Jo Farrell. Foot binding - the art of binding a woman's foot for many years until it becomes small and altered in form and shape from its original state - was practised in China for centuries before it died out.
Feb 14, 2020 · Examining the debilitating, lifelong physical effects that foot-binding had on Chinese girls can be crucial for understanding the lengths to which societies will go to restrict women’s...
Mar 23, 2015 · Decades after foot-binding was outlawed in China, a British photographer has met some of the last women subjected to the practice.
Jun 6, 2014 · In the past eight years, she has photographed 50 women with bound feet in rural China. Most live in an area two hours outside of Jinan, Shandong province. Here we see Zhao Hua Hong's feet.
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