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Bound Compared to Normal Foot, China, 1899
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Title:
Bound Compared to Normal Foot, China, 1899
Caption:
Foot binding (also known as "Lotus feet") was the custom of applying painfully tight binding to the feet of young girls to prevent further growth. The practice possibly originated among upper-class court dancers during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Imperial China (10th or 11th century), but spread in the Song Dynasty and eventually became common among all but the lowest of classes. Foot binding became popular as a means of displaying status (women from wealthy families who did not need them to work could afford to have their feet bound) and was correspondingly adopted as a symbol of beauty in Chinese culture. Image taken from page 160 of "Intimate China" by Alicia Neva Little, 1899.
Category:
black & white • History: Modern
Credit:
Album / Science Source / British Library
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Image size:
3900 x 2600 px | 29.0 MB
Print size:
33.0 x 22.0 cm | 13.0 x 8.7 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
1899 • 19TH CENTURY • ASIA • ASIAN • BLACK & WHITE • BOUND FEET • BW • CHINA • CHINESE • COMPARED • COMPARISON • CULTURAL • CULTURE • CUSTOM • DEFORMED • DEFORMITY • EAST ASIA • EASTERN ASIA • FOOT BINDING • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • HISTORY: MODERN • IMPERIAL CHINA • LOTUS FEET • MALFORMATION • MALFORMED • ORIENTAL • PHOTO • PHOTOGRAPH • PRACTICE • PREVENT GROWTH • STATUS SYMBOL • STUNT GROWTH • STUNT • STUNTED • SYMBOL OF BEAUTY • TRADITION • TRADITIONAL • TRADITIONS • YOUNG GIRLS • YOUNG WOMEN
