Footbinding

Chinese foot-binding, the lotus shoe, the anti-binding campaigns, and the prohibitions of 1912 and 1949.

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  1. - Chinese Ladies Footbinding Shoes QM r. This is a pair of Chinese lady’s shoes for bound feet. They are very small as the ideal length for a bound foot was seven and a half centimetres.
  2. - Chaussure chinoise Saverne 02 05 2012 1. Chinese shoe for bound foot, 18th century. Musées du château des Rohan, Musée Louise Weiss, Saverne, France.
  3. - Chinese Apothecary 1. A display of Chinese apothecary and foot binding materials from the late 19th century: from left: balance scale, upper shelf: footbinding shoes. Lower shelf, herbal materials, 19th and early 20th century packages.
  4. - Pair of Shoes for Women’s Bound Feet, 19th century. 2: 3 15/16 x 4 1/8 in.
  5. - X-ray of four views of footbinding (NCP 000061), National Museum of Health and Medicine (3299246623). X-ray of four views of footbinding (NCP 000061), National Museum of Health and Medicine Description: Four x-ray images showing the effect of footbinding on the bones of the foot. Photograph taken by Dr.
  6. - Pair of Women s Chinese Foot Binding (Lotus) Shoes. 's Chinese Foot Binding (Lotus) Shoes.
  7. - China: bound and unbound feet of two Amoy women. Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: bound and unbound feet of two Amoy women. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869. Held by the Wellcome Collection.
  8. - A Nanny or Servant from a Rich Household, in a Cotton Gown over Trousers, with Traditional Lotus (Bound). In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by.
  9. - Plaster model of left foot deformed by foot-binding. Foot-binding was a traditional practice that originated among high society women in China, possibly up to 1000 years ago. It involved ‘moulding’ the feet of a young girl, usually aged between three and eleven. Held by the Wellcome Collection.
  10. - Lotos feet. 1895.
  11. - Female compressed foot, and natural foot. Photograph by John Thomson. See detail on the Wikisource link below.
  12. - A Han Woman in 1900s Beijing. A Han ethnic woman in 1900s, Beijing.
  13. - Diapositief glaspositief toverlantaarnplaat, reeks 010.145, China, nr. 34, asset. Diapositief / glaspositief / toverlantaarnplaat, reeks 010.145, China, nr. 34 Creator: Ed.
  14. - Manifesto of the Natural Foot Society by N̂g Gio̍k-kai. The Manifesto of the Natural Foot Society, drafted by Taiwanese doctor N̂g Gio̍k-kai in February 1900. Later that year, N̂g and his fellows founded the Natural Foot Society ( Tennensoku-kai ) in Taihoku, with the goal of persuading Taiwanese people to abandon the custom of foot binding and embrace natural feet.
  15. - Natural vs bound foot comparison (1902). The so-called Lily feet (right) contrasted with the natural feet of Chinese women in Canton (now Guangzhou), China. Held by the Library of Congress.
  16. - Bandages Are Removed From Female Feet By Royal Decree. A Chinese woman wears new shoes made in Chicago; A Chinese man's head is bandaged and labelled Egotism of the Ages the bandages are labelled :?for Acute Swell Head. The caption reads Now, if They Could but Bandage the Swelled Head of the Male Population for a Few Generations There Would Be Hope for China.
  17. - A Chinese lady s feet contrasted with a boy s shoes and a cup, Changde, Hunan, China, ca.1900 1919 (IMP. A Chinese lady's feet contrasted with a boy's shoes and a cup, Changde, Hunan, China, ca.1900-1919 A Chinese lady's feet contrasted with a boy's shoes and a cup. The photograph illustrates the size of a Chinese woman's feet as a result of the practice of foot binding.; Captions for this set of lantern slides from.
  18. - Chinese woman s bound feet, Changde, Hunan, China, ca.1900-1919 (IMP-YDS-RG008-358-0008-0016). Chinese woman's bound feet, Changde, Hunan, China, ca.1900-1919 Bound feet - anatomically viewed in all their gruesomeness. Bound feet were well on the way out by the Revolution. ; Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were.
  19. - A HIGH CASTE LADYS DAINTY LILY FEET (cropped). A HIGH CASTE LADY'S DAINTY LILY FEET. Showing the deformation (the shoe is worn on the great toe only).
  20. - Die verkruppeltenFusse einer vornehmenChinesin. Abb. 668 Die verkrüppelten Füße einer vornehmen Chinesin.
  21. - Foot binding shoes 1. Chinese shoes for bound feet, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
  22. - Tonkin - Hanoi chinoise aux petits pieds (Hanoi Chinese woman with bound feet). An old postcard from the website WWW.CALENDARTHANHTHUY.COM published in French Indo-China before the 1940's depicting daily life, hence is in the.
  23. - HKMMS Bound Feet y60318. 纏足 Bound feet in the past years.
  24. - Golden Lotus shoes (2480670528). No flash allowed, so I had to take this at such a high speed it's a bit grainy. These golden lotus shoes made for women with bound feet are in the Bata Shoe Museum.
  25. - Lotosfuesse-2010. Lotosfüße alter Frauen im Dorf Tuanshan (Yunnan, China).
  26. - SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN: \"Foot Binding\". Behind the scenes of a period drama set in nineteenth-century Hunan, the production team and cast work through how to stage the binding of a young girl's feet and what the shoes and gait required of the actors.
  27. - 缠足. A compact treatment of chanzu, its wrapping method, the shoes worn with it, and the stages by which the custom disappeared in the twentieth century.
  28. - GOLDEN LOTUS Documentary Trailer.mov. Opening passages on the golden lotus ideal, pairing archival images of wrapped feet with the embroidered slippers that displayed them, and introducing women who lived through the practice's final decades.
  29. - Shoe. One embroidered (Lotus) shoe for bound foot (gin lien) Belonged to and worn by Mrs Lillian Choy's mother.
  30. - Living History: Bound Feet Women of China. Elderly women in rural Shandong and Yunnan who had their feet bound as girls sit for portraits and describe the binding, the shoes they still wear, and how the practice ended within their own lifetimes.
  31. - A Chinese lady s foot.
  32. - China
  33. - Living with bound feet. A woman in her nineties unwraps and rebinds her feet, shows the shoes she has worn for decades, and talks about the mobility she has now and what her mother told her at the time.
  34. - Foot Binding In China(tanwendan). A student survey of the custom in China covering its origins, the binding method, the class and regional patterns of who practised it, and its decline in the early twentieth century.
  35. - THE LAST GENERATION: The lives of Foot-Bound Women ／Trailer. Brief glimpses of village interviews with surviving bound-foot women, their hands unwinding the cloth strips and the small shoes lined up beside them.
  36. - THE LAST GENERATION: The lives of Foot-Bound Women. Among the last Chinese women alive with bound feet, daily routines carry on in village courtyards: washing and rewrapping, walking with a stick, and recounting the years when small feet decided a daughter's marriage prospects.
  37. - A pained recalling of foot binding. An older woman recalls the binding of her own feet, speaking about the pain she remembers and the circumstances in her family that made it seem unavoidable at the time.
  38. - 古代中國的纏足文化. Chanzu as a cultural institution in dynastic China: its court origins, the vocabulary of lotus names for different foot shapes, and the shoes, poems and courtship rituals that surrounded it.
  39. - 古代中國的纏足文化. Chanzu as a cultural institution in dynastic China: its court origins, the vocabulary of lotus names for different foot shapes, and the shoes, poems and courtship rituals that surrounded it.
  40. - Banned practice of foot binding blighting China's oldest women | ITV News. Reporting from Chinese villages where surviving women bound as children now live into old age, with attention to the walking difficulty and pain they describe and to the republican-era bans that ended binding for younger generations.
  41. - Banned practice of foot binding blighting China's oldest women | ITV News. Reporting from Chinese villages where surviving women bound as children now live into old age, with attention to the walking difficulty and pain they describe and to the republican-era bans that ended binding for younger generations.
  42. - Andrea Dworkin on Chinese foot binding (1974). Andrea Dworkin, speaking in 1974, discusses Chinese foot binding as part of her argument about beauty practices and women's bodies, drawing on the historical accounts available to her then.
  43. - Andrea Dworkin on Chinese foot binding (1974). Andrea Dworkin, speaking in 1974, discusses Chinese foot binding as part of her argument about beauty practices and women's bodies, drawing on the historical accounts available to her then.
  44. - 小單元 『日治時期的女性與纏足』臺灣吧 第2 5集 Taiwan Bar EP2 5 Taiwanese Female & Foot Binding under Japanese Rule. Under Japanese colonial rule, Taiwanese women's bound feet became a target of official reform, and the segment follows the unbinding campaigns, the resistance to them, and what changed for girls born after.
  45. - 小單元 『日治時期的女性與纏足』臺灣吧 第2 5集 Taiwan Bar EP2 5 Taiwanese Female & Foot Binding under Japanese Rule. Under Japanese colonial rule, Taiwanese women's bound feet became a target of official reform, and the segment follows the unbinding campaigns, the resistance to them, and what changed for girls born after.
  46. - Bound feet: Bound and unbound. Bound feet of a Chinese lady compared with the unbound feet of a working Chinese woman. Held by the Wellcome Collection.
  47. - Woman with bound feet, photograph by John Thomson. Woman with bound feet, shown next to the unbound foot of another person. Held by the Wellcome Collection.
  48. - The History of Foot Binding in China(Lotos Feet) | Glicfalcon TV. The wrapping itself is described step by step, from the first binding of a young girl's toes under the sole to the years of tightening that followed, along with the poetry and courtship conventions built around the result.
  49. - The History of Foot Binding in China(Lotos Feet) | Glicfalcon TV. The wrapping itself is described step by step, from the first binding of a young girl's toes under the sole to the years of tightening that followed, along with the poetry and courtship conventions built around the result.
  50. - The History of Chinese Foot Binding. Origins traced to Song-dynasty dancers and courtesans, then the mechanics of the wrapping cloth, the breaking of the arch, the marriage economy that rewarded small feet, and the abolition campaigns of the late Qing and republican years.
  51. - The History of Chinese Foot Binding. Origins traced to Song-dynasty dancers and courtesans, then the mechanics of the wrapping cloth, the breaking of the arch, the marriage economy that rewarded small feet, and the abolition campaigns of the late Qing and republican years.
  52. - 裹小腳陋習竟與床第之事有關 看中國女人千年纏足史【台灣啟示錄精華】復刻版 第93集 ｜洪培翔. A studio history of chanzu covering its thousand-year run in China, the erotic literature that grew around small feet, and the household pressures that kept mothers binding their daughters.
  53. - 裹小腳陋習竟與床第之事有關 看中國女人千年纏足史【台灣啟示錄精華】復刻版 第93集 ｜洪培翔. A studio history of chanzu covering its thousand-year run in China, the erotic literature that grew around small feet, and the household pressures that kept mothers binding their daughters.
  54. - 讀一點書｜水獺教室EP3：纏足是古人的病態審美？. A reading-room conversation weighs the usual explanation of chanzu as pure aesthetic excess against evidence about women's labour, textile work and household economics in the binding era.
  55. - 讀一點書｜水獺教室EP3：纏足是古人的病態審美？. A reading-room conversation weighs the usual explanation of chanzu as pure aesthetic excess against evidence about women's labour, textile work and household economics in the binding era.
  56. - 明清裹小脚有多残忍？流行近千年的畸形审美，为何能“风靡”明清. Ming and Qing enthusiasm for tiny feet is set out through the wrapping technique, the household ritual around it, and the reasons the ideal took hold across social classes over roughly a thousand years.
  57. - 明清裹小脚有多残忍？流行近千年的畸形审美，为何能“风靡”明清. Ming and Qing enthusiasm for tiny feet is set out through the wrapping technique, the household ritual around it, and the reasons the ideal took hold across social classes over roughly a thousand years.
  58. - The prevalence and practice of Footbinding in China (1636–1912). How widespread binding actually was across Qing-era China, region by region and class by class, and how its prevalence shifted between the seventeenth century and the dynasty's fall in 1912.
  59. - The prevalence and practice of Footbinding in China (1636 - 1912). How widespread binding actually was across Qing-era China, region by region and class by class, and how its prevalence shifted between the seventeenth century and the dynasty's fall in 1912.
  60. - 跳舞時代：誰是解放台灣女性雙腳的那個男人？｜纏足｜黃玉階｜王佐榮｜老照片｜. Taiwan's anti-binding movement is traced through Huang Yu-chieh, the physician and community leader who campaigned for women to unbind, illustrated with period photographs of Taipei households and street life.
  61. - 跳舞時代：誰是解放台灣女性雙腳的那個男人？｜纏足｜黃玉階｜王佐榮｜老照片｜. Taiwan's anti-binding movement is traced through Huang Yu-chieh, the physician and community leader who campaigned for women to unbind, illustrated with period photographs of Taipei households and street life.
  62. - 揭秘古代缠足的真相：三寸金莲到底有多恐怖？小脚女人真的美吗？. What the sancun jinlian ideal actually required of a girl's bones is laid out briefly, with period illustrations and photographs of the wrapped foot and the shoes made to fit it.
  63. - 揭秘古代缠足的真相：三寸金莲到底有多恐怖？小脚女人真的美吗？. What the sancun jinlian ideal actually required of a girl's bones is laid out briefly, with period illustrations and photographs of the wrapped foot and the shoes made to fit it.
  64. - 民國最後一位小腳女人爆出驚人真相：為何古人都痴迷「三寸金蓮」？纏足、束腰、染牙，這些陋習背後竟都有難以啟齒的目的….[She's Xiaowu @ndwtb]. Testimony from one of the last women in China to have been bound anchors a wider look at body-shaping customs, including waist binding and the blackened teeth worn in other East Asian traditions.
  65. - 民國最後一位小腳女人爆出驚人真相：為何古人都痴迷「三寸金蓮」？纏足、束腰、染牙，這些陋習背後竟都有難以啟齒的目的….[She's Xiaowu @ndwtb]. Testimony from one of the last women in China to have been bound anchors a wider look at body-shaping customs, including waist binding and the blackened teeth worn in other East Asian traditions.
  66. - 【REJI Documentary 日记纪录片】 裹小脚的年代 | 三寸金莲 The Last Lotus Shoe Makers in Melaka. In Melaka, the remaining craftspeople who still stitch and embroider sancun jinlian, the three-inch lotus shoes, work through the pattern cutting and sole shaping, and Peranakan Chinese families recall who wore them.
  67. - 【REJI Documentary 日记纪录片】 裹小脚的年代 | 三寸金莲 The Last Lotus Shoe Makers in Melaka. In Melaka, the remaining craftspeople who still stitch and embroider sancun jinlian, the three-inch lotus shoes, work through the pattern cutting and sole shaping, and Peranakan Chinese families recall who wore them.
  68. - The Biggest Shoe Museum in the World!. A walk through a footwear collection spanning centuries and continents, where Chinese lotus slippers sit alongside chopines, platform sandals and other shoes built to reshape or elevate the wearer's stance.
  69. - The Biggest Shoe Museum in the World!. A walk through a footwear collection spanning centuries and continents, where Chinese lotus slippers sit alongside chopines, platform sandals and other shoes built to reshape or elevate the wearer's stance.
  70. - The Ancient Beauty Trend So Painful It Was Banned #medievalhistory #bestdocumentary #4k. A quick account of the small-foot ideal in China, the wrapping that produced it and the official prohibitions that eventually ended it.
  71. - The Ancient Beauty Trend So Painful It Was Banned #medievalhistory #bestdocumentary #4k. A quick account of the small-foot ideal in China, the wrapping that produced it and the official prohibitions that eventually ended it.
  72. - Bata Shoe Museum. A short visit through display cases of historical and contemporary footwear in Toronto, moving past ceremonial shoes, working boots and the small embroidered slippers made for bound feet.
  73. - Bata Shoe Museum. A short visit through display cases of historical and contemporary footwear in Toronto, moving past ceremonial shoes, working boots and the small embroidered slippers made for bound feet.
  74. - “World of Shoes! Exploring the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto”. Galleries at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto hold footwear from many cultures and periods, including Chinese bound-foot slippers, and the labels set each pair against the status it signalled.
  75. - “World of Shoes! Exploring the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto”. Galleries at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto hold footwear from many cultures and periods, including Chinese bound-foot slippers, and the labels set each pair against the status it signalled.
  76. - Your Life as a Footbinding Daughter (China). Told from a daughter's perspective, the sequence of binding years is reconstructed: the first wrapping, the nightly tightening, the shoes made at each stage, and what a bound girl's household expected of her.
  77. - Your Life as a Footbinding Daughter (China). Told from a daughter's perspective, the sequence of binding years is reconstructed: the first wrapping, the nightly tightening, the shoes made at each stage, and what a bound girl's household expected of her.
  78. - Foot Binding: Why Chinese Mothers Broke Their Daughters' Feet. Why mothers bound their own daughters is the central question, answered through marriage markets, labour expectations, textile work done seated, and the way status passed between generations of women.
  79. - Foot Binding: Why Chinese Mothers Broke Their Daughters' Feet. Why mothers bound their own daughters is the central question, answered through marriage markets, labour expectations, textile work done seated, and the way status passed between generations of women.
  80. - LECTURE 69: Foot Binding. A classroom account of how binding spread from court and elite circles in the Song period through later dynasties, the age at which girls' feet were wrapped, and the class and regional differences in who practised it.
  81. - LECTURE 69: Foot Binding. A classroom account of how binding spread from court and elite circles in the Song period through later dynasties, the age at which girls' feet were wrapped, and the class and regional differences in who practised it.
  82. - Your Life as a Foot-Bound Woman in Imperial China. Reconstructing a girl's years in an imperial-era household: the age binding began, who did the wrapping, the marriage negotiations that hinged on foot size, and the domestic work expected alongside it.
  83. - Your Life as a Foot-Bound Woman in Imperial China. Reconstructing a girl's years in an imperial-era household: the age binding began, who did the wrapping, the marriage negotiations that hinged on foot size, and the domestic work expected alongside it.
  84. - Why Did Chinese Mothers Bind Their Daughters' Feet? Cruel Reality of Foot Binding. The reasoning behind a mother's decision to bind is examined through marriage prospects, family standing and local custom, alongside what the process did to the bones of the foot.
  85. - Why Did Chinese Mothers Bind Their Daughters' Feet? Cruel Reality of Foot Binding. The reasoning behind a mother's decision to bind is examined through marriage prospects, family standing and local custom, alongside what the process did to the bones of the foot.
  86. - The Life of One of China's Last Women with Foot Binding. One woman's account carries the story: the wrapping she remembers from childhood, the farm and household work she did on bound feet, and the changes she watched arrive in her village.
  87. - The Life of One of China's Last Women with Foot Binding. One woman's account carries the story: the wrapping she remembers from childhood, the farm and household work she did on bound feet, and the changes she watched arrive in her village.
  88. - Footbinding: A History. A long-form history running from the earliest Song accounts of bound feet through the spread of the practice into commoner households, the anti-binding societies of the nineteenth century, and the legal bans that followed.
  89. - Footbinding: A History. A long-form history running from the earliest Song accounts of bound feet through the spread of the practice into commoner households, the anti-binding societies of the nineteenth century, and the legal bans that followed.
  90. - The history of Chinese Lotus Shoes. Museum lotus shoes are turned over for the camera: silk uppers, embroidered birds and flowers, wooden and cotton soles, and the regional variations in shape that distinguished one province's style from another.
  91. - The history of Chinese Lotus Shoes. Museum lotus shoes are turned over for the camera: silk uppers, embroidered birds and flowers, wooden and cotton soles, and the regional variations in shape that distinguished one province's style from another.
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