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Zhao Yi reviewed all existent theories based on textual evidence and favored the “tenth century theory” because the sources were closest to the practice; practices of footbinding were localized and varied
How did it end?
Anti-footbinding legislation and campaigns
(from the perspective of “gigantic history”, public-national rhythm/vocies)
The demise of all cultural symbols and values underpinning it, which were used to justify its practicality
• the absence of “authentic” female voice. • Hubris of western (Christian) and modernized sense of
gender equality and body freedom • Newly invented terms denoting the liberation of bound
•Fiction provides information which is of dubious historical veracity:
•“Feet Contests” (saijiao hui) in Datong caused the production of distinct lotus shoes with regional reputation
Bronze Sculpture
Granny Wu inspected Maiden Liang Ying’s body
The “Origin” Discourse
Foodbinding’s origin: footbinding in historical accounts and highbrow literature
Philologists’ and historians’ views:
Yang Shen of the Ming tried to push its origin from recent past to remote antiquity: Han
Hu Yinglin traced it back to the Six Dynasties
• Beautiful women or courtesans wore high-heeled lotus shoes • Footbinding was a fashion, identity, and representation of social status
Fiction shows that footbinding is
•Competition also promoted footbinding
•Fiction depicting footbinding as an important element of culture:
•Li YU (1610-80), Xianqing ouji (Casual Expressions of Idle Feeling), demonstrates the author’s connoisseurship of bound feet.
•Tiny-feet northern women were bandits with bound feet •Their femininity did not impede their agility •They would rob and kill northern men
• Pu Songling (1640-1715), Vernacular Plays from Liaozhai (Liaozhai liqu ji)
(from the perspective of “miniature history, private-individual rhythy/voices)
Anti-footbinding Rhetoric and Movement
• Began from late 19th to early 20th century • Characterized by:
“Yaoniang wrapping her feet”
Chairs used to wrap feet
Bound foot women in late ing
Bound feet women in Modern Times
Only ten-millimeters long
The size of “Lotus Shoes”
• Eroticization of female body
• Mass production of lotus shoes
•“Feet contest” took various forms for various reasons and occasions
•Competitors were judged by the following attributes of their feet:
•Small, slender (narrow), pointy, arched, fragrant, soft, correct (proper, balanced)
“Spinning Wheel”, Wang Juzheng, Southern Song
Occasionally, some paintings indicate that some women had chanzu
“Variety show—Beating Flower Drum,” anonymous, Song
The “origin issue” emerged as a topic of literati conversation in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
Myth and history are both myths.
Most commonly accepted notion: Yaoniang’s wrapped feet in the court of Li Yu of the Southern Tang
Qian Yong echoed the chronology suggested by Hu and Zhao
Foodbinding in Fiction:
Examples of Illustrated Fiction: (left) Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng); (right) The Plum in the Golden Vase (Jinping Mei)
•Bound feet, although small, serve their function in altering the gait and enhancing the grace of the woman
•Wang Jingqi (1672-1726), Jottings on My Westward Journey (Dushutang xizheng suibi)
•Connoisseur will watch, smell, touch, discern …the bound feet
•Will also look at the full body in movement
•Li remains keen on the balance between beauty and function of bound feet.
• formation of a denigrating, insulting, and erroneous image of women
•Exaggeration of women’s ordeal as inferior and oppressed sex and of men’s position as superior and oppressive sex
• Expression of the movement’s misogynist attitude toward women with bound feet
• Criminalization of Chanzu • Creation of two diametrically opposed female subject position, highlighted by chanzu inspectors.
characterized by:
• Status distinctions
• Regional diversities: north vs. south
Impacts of footbinding:
• Caring of bound foot including a wide array of medical treatments: powder, broth, ointment…
feet—tiangzu (heavenly feet), fangzu ( freed feet or letting feet out) • Condemnation of the shame it brought to the patriarchal nation • Claim that it hurts democracy
As evidenced by the creation of “Lotus Shoes”
A Thousand years of bound feet
Footbinding: A Revisionist’s View
Song paintings indicate that most women had tianzu (heavenly or natural feet) rather than chanzu (bound beet) or sancun jinlian (the three-inch golden lotus)
How did it end?
Anti-footbinding legislation and campaigns
(from the perspective of “gigantic history”, public-national rhythm/vocies)
The demise of all cultural symbols and values underpinning it, which were used to justify its practicality
• the absence of “authentic” female voice. • Hubris of western (Christian) and modernized sense of
gender equality and body freedom • Newly invented terms denoting the liberation of bound
•Fiction provides information which is of dubious historical veracity:
•“Feet Contests” (saijiao hui) in Datong caused the production of distinct lotus shoes with regional reputation
Bronze Sculpture
Granny Wu inspected Maiden Liang Ying’s body
The “Origin” Discourse
Foodbinding’s origin: footbinding in historical accounts and highbrow literature
Philologists’ and historians’ views:
Yang Shen of the Ming tried to push its origin from recent past to remote antiquity: Han
Hu Yinglin traced it back to the Six Dynasties
• Beautiful women or courtesans wore high-heeled lotus shoes • Footbinding was a fashion, identity, and representation of social status
Fiction shows that footbinding is
•Competition also promoted footbinding
•Fiction depicting footbinding as an important element of culture:
•Li YU (1610-80), Xianqing ouji (Casual Expressions of Idle Feeling), demonstrates the author’s connoisseurship of bound feet.
•Tiny-feet northern women were bandits with bound feet •Their femininity did not impede their agility •They would rob and kill northern men
• Pu Songling (1640-1715), Vernacular Plays from Liaozhai (Liaozhai liqu ji)
(from the perspective of “miniature history, private-individual rhythy/voices)
Anti-footbinding Rhetoric and Movement
• Began from late 19th to early 20th century • Characterized by:
“Yaoniang wrapping her feet”
Chairs used to wrap feet
Bound foot women in late ing
Bound feet women in Modern Times
Only ten-millimeters long
The size of “Lotus Shoes”
• Eroticization of female body
• Mass production of lotus shoes
•“Feet contest” took various forms for various reasons and occasions
•Competitors were judged by the following attributes of their feet:
•Small, slender (narrow), pointy, arched, fragrant, soft, correct (proper, balanced)
“Spinning Wheel”, Wang Juzheng, Southern Song
Occasionally, some paintings indicate that some women had chanzu
“Variety show—Beating Flower Drum,” anonymous, Song
The “origin issue” emerged as a topic of literati conversation in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
Myth and history are both myths.
Most commonly accepted notion: Yaoniang’s wrapped feet in the court of Li Yu of the Southern Tang
Qian Yong echoed the chronology suggested by Hu and Zhao
Foodbinding in Fiction:
Examples of Illustrated Fiction: (left) Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng); (right) The Plum in the Golden Vase (Jinping Mei)
•Bound feet, although small, serve their function in altering the gait and enhancing the grace of the woman
•Wang Jingqi (1672-1726), Jottings on My Westward Journey (Dushutang xizheng suibi)
•Connoisseur will watch, smell, touch, discern …the bound feet
•Will also look at the full body in movement
•Li remains keen on the balance between beauty and function of bound feet.
• formation of a denigrating, insulting, and erroneous image of women
•Exaggeration of women’s ordeal as inferior and oppressed sex and of men’s position as superior and oppressive sex
• Expression of the movement’s misogynist attitude toward women with bound feet
• Criminalization of Chanzu • Creation of two diametrically opposed female subject position, highlighted by chanzu inspectors.
characterized by:
• Status distinctions
• Regional diversities: north vs. south
Impacts of footbinding:
• Caring of bound foot including a wide array of medical treatments: powder, broth, ointment…
feet—tiangzu (heavenly feet), fangzu ( freed feet or letting feet out) • Condemnation of the shame it brought to the patriarchal nation • Claim that it hurts democracy
As evidenced by the creation of “Lotus Shoes”
A Thousand years of bound feet
Footbinding: A Revisionist’s View
Song paintings indicate that most women had tianzu (heavenly or natural feet) rather than chanzu (bound beet) or sancun jinlian (the three-inch golden lotus)