Chinese Foot binding Background Information In the tenth century in China, a prince began the practice of foot binding because he loved the small 'lily feet' of his concubine. Thus traditional Chinese values for over 1000 years dictated that the feet of young girls should be bound to keep ...
Footbinding became the most sexualized objectification of women in Chinese history, while creating a distinct aversion in Western observers. Despite much prurient attention to Indian and Arab women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, western travellers simply did not see Chinese women as erotic...
Considered barbaric by modern social standards, the practice of foot binding lasted up through the middle of the 20th Century, despite being banned in 1912 under the laws of the newly risen Republic of China (1912-1949). Through the Chinese looking glass, although beauty standards have transforme...
ChineseFootbinding-MadisonPublicSchools 系统标签: footbindingmadisonchineseahposchools ChineseFootbinding BackgroundInformation InthetenthcenturyinChina,aprincebeganthepracticeoffootbindingbecausehe lovedthesmall'lilyfeet'ofhisconcubine.ThustraditionalChinesevaluesforover1000 yearsdictatedthatthefeetofyounggirlsshouldbe...
The tiny feet of women who had their feet bound since childhood in China were deemed attractive, erotic, and a sure way to find a rich husband. Foot binding was painful, but practiced in old China.
This essay traces the evocations of the Chinese practice of foot-binding in Western political thought. I examine the changing deployments of the image: as a contrast to European freedom or as a mirror reflecting its own limitations. The bound feet not merely illustrate a lack of freedom through...
The ancient tradition of foot binding in China, however, takes the "beauty is pain" concept to a whole new level. The Origins of Chinese Foot Binding In the early 10th century, emperor Li Yu of the Southern Tang dynasty in China ordered one of his slave girls to bind her feet in silk...
history of female foot-binding in China with examples of the shoes that constituted (as captions in the museum attest to) the Golden Lotus (3in foot) complex that was the freakish mentality of the males at that time. Periodically banned, foot-binding was finally abolished in the ...
typepadchinesecustomconcubinagebindingfoot LOTUSFLOWERANDCONCUBINAGE TherearefewWesternerswhocanunderstandtheChinesepracticeofconcubinageasit waspracticedupuntilthe1930s.Inactuality,thepracticeofconcubinageisalogicaloutgrowth oftheChinesefamilystructure,particularlyasitappliedtothepositionofwomenintheChinese family,in...
This essay traces the evocations of the Chinese practice of foot-binding in Western political thought. I examine the changing deployments of the image: as a contrast to European freedom or as a mirror reflecting its own limitations. The bound feet not merely illustrate a lack of freedom through...