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Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get

Title : Bound Feet, Young Hands: Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China
Author : Laurel Boussen
Language : en
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Uploaded : Apr 07, 2021

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