Home Index By Subject By Year Biographies The Gift Shop Chinese Girl with Bound Feet Nineteenth-century photograph of a San Francisco child who wears beautifully embroidered three-inch lotus shoes. This cruel practice lasted from the tenth century to 1911, when it was banned by the new Chinese republic. In November 1997, UC San Francisco released details of the first study on the consequences of ...

This website is to promote a book on the history of Chinese footbinding. There are chapters on the legends, the binding, Chinese traditions, bound feet in art, poetry, literature, Chinese opera; the sexual side of the custom;the beautiful little embroidered shoes the women made to cover the boundfeet, bound feet in America, Western missionaries in China.

Back to Chinese Culture | Back to Women's History Sourcebook | Marie Vento: One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise Term Paper/Core 9: Chinese Culture/ March 7, 1998 In addressing the subject of footbinding, one primary difficulty becomes apparent - that much remains within the realm of the unknowable. Any factual knowledge about the practice may only be ...

Chinese folklore attributes the origins of footbinding to a fox who tried to conceal its paws while assuming the human guise of the Shang Empress.

Tuesday, March 10, 1998 By Beverley Jackson Although foot-binding is no longer practiced, many women with bound feet are still alive. Author Beverley Jackson photographed this woman in Yunan Province in 1997. The tradition of foot-binding is tied up in issues of beauty, marriageability and sex By Nadine Kam Assistant Features Editor Chinese foot-binding, according to author Beverley Jackson, is ...

CHINESE FOOT BINDING Foot binding. These two words bring up images of twisted deformed feet, pain and torture. It seems that everyone has heard of foot binding. The words are self-explanatory. However, what do we really know about it What was actually done Why was it done and how could such a thing have been tolerated When and where did this take place and is this custom still practiced ...