Explore: Footbinding

(simplified Chinese: 缠足; traditional Chinese: 纏足; pinyin: chánzú), or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young

of footbinding. The Hundred Days' Reform of 1898 stimulated many social reform activities. The widest-ranging movement was the "anti-footbinding movement

footbinding was not unique to elite or urban populations, it was also widespread among rural women. Yet, the experience and practice of footbinding were

associated with China, such as Chinese characters, tea, chopsticks, and footbinding. In particular, his failure to mention the Great Wall of China had been

In 1883, Kang Youwei founded the Anti-Footbinding Society near Canton to combat the practice, and anti-footbinding societies sprang up across the country

mention the Great Wall of China, tea, Chinese characters, chopsticks, or footbinding. His failure to note the presence of the Great Wall of China was first

before the 16th century. Some Muslims in dynastic era China resisted footbinding of girls for the same reason. Quran 2:117 Quran 1:4; Quran 6:31; Quran

this kingdom, slavery, concubinage, arranged marriage, opium smoking, footbinding, judicial torture, and the worship of idols were all banned. However

1874 an anti-footbinding organization was founded in Xiamen. By 1908 the majority of the Chinese elite had spoken out against footbinding and in 1911 the

visit to relatives. Gerry Mackie has compared the practice to footbinding. Like FGM, footbinding was carried out on young girls, nearly universal where practised