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11 Apr 08
beth gourleyA brief anectdotal story. C. Hinton's work is far more informative. Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China by Wang Ping is also presents some good research, but not easy to read.
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bound feet were considered a prerequisite for landing a husband.
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feared the Nationalist soldiers.
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placed bowls of urine inside their homes to create a stench so vile that soldiers would not enter for fear of illness
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Mao came around, binding feet wasn’t allowed anymore.
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MAO remains a warm, if vague, memory,
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Drought is what they noticed,
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Laoshidan is decrepit, with battered brick homes, mud stables and dirt paths for roads.
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found a bit of satisfaction from at least one of the changes wrought in their long lives.
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If you wanted to hit them, you could hit them. But now women are women.
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