Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom

Ainu bandage beautiful 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 child China Chine Hermétique Chinese concubine custom daughter dynasty feel feet bound felt feminine flesh foot emancipation footbinding footbound girl golden lotus heel Hsün husband inches long instep Jade Japanese ladies large-footed later Li Ju-chen Liang Lin Yutang looked lotuses Lukang lumbar vertebrae male Manchu married Matignon mother Nagao natural feet natural-footed night official pain pair Peking pelvis placed plantar red shoes remove the bindings rubbed sexual Shanghai Shansi Shih Shih-chung sister sleeping shoes small feet socks suffered Sung Sung dynasty T'ang Taichung Taipei Taiwan Taiwanese three-inch Tientsin tightly tiny feet tiny foot tiny shoes tiny-footed Ts'ai-fei lu urine village walk washed wear wedding wife woman women worn yangban Yao Ling-hsi young Yüan