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Jun 15, 2015 · Unbound: China's last 'lotus feet' – in pictures. 103 years after foot binding was banned, a few women still live with the severe deformity it caused. Jo Farrell tracked down 50 of...
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.
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 was the practice of curling young girls' feet to modify their shape in ancient China. See why and how women bound their feet here.
Chinese woman shows her deformed bound feet. Foot binding was a common practice in China for over 1,000 years before it was outlawed in 1911.
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...
Apr 10, 2015 · Even after a mostly effective ban in 1912, foot-binding lasted decades longer in rural areas of China. The feet of those now-elderly women—today living legacies—are not often discussed.
Jun 2, 2024 · Historians suggest that by the 19th century, as much as 40% of all Chinese women had bound feet, which became universal amongst the upper classes. The smaller the foot, the more valuable the bride, and the higher the chances of social advancement.
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.
