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12-05-2009, 06:08 AM
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 My Rank: CORPORAL Poster Rank:1579 Woman Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 358 Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Quoted: 21 Post(s)
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More Foot Shaping
LIUYI VILLAGE, YUNNAN PROVINCE -- In a courtyard of her crumbling house, Wu Liuying lifts her favorite pair of shoes from a dusty cardboard box. Hand-sewn from navy-blue cloth, embroidered with pink flowers, they are no bigger than a small child's slippers. But they slip easily over the gnarled shrunken feet of the 90-year-old Ms. Wu. From the age of 5, her feet were bound tightly with cotton strips, warping them. The four smallest toes folded under the sole, which was squeezed into a high arch, creating a crevasse between the heel and the ball of the foot. Hers was among the last of countless generations of Chinese women who bound their feet in search of an idealized form of beauty. Though banned in 1912 after the Qing dynasty fell and the Nationalists established a republic, the practice lingered, especially in remote areas of China. A 1928 census in rural Shanxi province found that 18% of women had bound feet; binding also hung on in Liuyi, in the frontier province of Yunnan.  · |
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12-05-2009, 06:12 AM
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 My Rank: PRIVATE Poster Rank:8877 Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 18 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 0 Post(s)
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Re: More Foot Shaping
Ok, now I get it, post this link on the other topic so other can get the questions answered... China huh? From the painting on the shoes, I swore it was russia
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12-05-2009, 06:39 AM
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 Satan's Playground Poster Rank:168 Southern Bell Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 9,382 Mentioned: 31 Post(s) Quoted: 157 Post(s)
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Re: More Foot Shaping
Not sure why this is on the death site no one is died and there is no gore. You should have posted it somewhere eles
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