- (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...
- of
footbinding. The
Hundred Days'
Reform of 1898
stimulated many
social reform activities. The widest-ranging
movement was the "anti-
footbinding movement...
-
footbinding was not
unique to
elite or
urban po****tions, it was also
widespread among rural women. Yet, the
experience and
practice of
footbinding were...
-
Power in China,
Feminisms in China, and Body Histories: The Case of
Footbinding. In
addition to her
career as a
history professor and researcher, Ko...
- In 1883, Kang
Youwei founded the Anti-
Footbinding Society near
Canton to
combat the practice, and anti-
footbinding societies sprang up
across the country...
- 1874 an anti-
footbinding organization was
founded in Xiamen. By 1908 the
majority of the
Chinese elite had
spoken out
against footbinding and in 1911 the...
-
mention the
Great Wall of China, tea,
Chinese characters, chopsticks, or
footbinding. His
failure to note the
presence of the
Great Wall of
China was first...
- ****ociated with China, such as
Chinese characters, tea, chopsticks, and
footbinding. In particular, his
failure to
mention the
Great Wall of
China had been...
-
think of
Chinese women simply as
victims and
focus on such
problems as
footbinding and
arranged marriages, but that Lisa See's
historical novels "follow...
-
visit to relatives.
Gerry Mackie has
compared the
practice to
footbinding. Like FGM,
footbinding was
carried out on
young girls,
nearly universal where practised...
