Footbinding was an infamous custom of the Han Chinese people used to modify the size and shape of feet in women. Binding started at a very young age and gradually deformed the natural growth of the feet, which was not only a painful process but also a lifetime source of inconvenience and...
With plenty of English, this fascinating museum covers the thousand-year history of female foot-binding in China with examples of the shoes that…
Much more than a simple custom designed to improve on a woman's beauty even the origins of the myths concerning Chinese foot binding are nearly impossible to locate and lend little insight into the thoughts of a culture that could fabricate such a standard of grace and beauty. The erotic ...
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...
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 trav
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yet it is hard to understand exactly what foot binding was like with the modern outlook we have today. The reason for women binding their feet went deeper than fashion and reflected the role of women in Chinese society. It was necessary then in China for a woman to have bound feet in or...
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.
Women's foot-binding in Ming and Qing Dynasties is a sex matter and also has the purpose of making distinctions between different nationalities,which is obviously different from the aesthetic pursuit in Song Dynasty.Foot-binding in Ming Dynasty reflects that the moral degeneration of the society is...
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 ...