Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom

anti-footbinding bamboo bandage beauty became become big toe bind their feet binding cloth bones bound feet bound-foot bowed shoes bride caused century Ch'en Cheng Chien Chia Shen China Chinese Chu Hsi concubine custom daughter dynasty Fang Hsün feel feet bound felt feminine flesh footbinding footbound Fukien golden lotus grasped heel husband instep Jade Japanese ladies large-footed legs Li Ju-chen Lin Yutang looked Lotus World lotuses Lukang male Manchu Matignon Ming mother Nagao natural feet natural-foot society night official pain pair palace palm Peking pelvis pigtails placed plantar play prostitutes red shoes remove the bindings rubbed sexual Shanghai Shansi Shih Shih-chung sleeping shoes slender small feet socks soft suffered Sung Sung dynasty T'ang Ta-t'ung Taichung Taiwan Taiwanese three-inch Tientsin tightly tiny feet tiny foot tiny shoes tiny-footed tion village walk washed wearing wedding wife woman women Yüan