catlib: Boundfeet - my grandma is 95+ , perhaps the only handful of people left to have boundfeet

Friday, October 5, 2007

Boundfeet - my grandma is 95+ , perhaps the only handful of people left to have boundfeet

Originally uploaded by golden_gate001

'Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,' a novel that gives a vivid description of how this custom was passed on to daughters

3 comments:

The Learning 2.0 Program said...: Wow- how amazing, and painful looking!
Thanks for sharing the photo (it is your Grandmother?)
Regards
Leslie; October 8, 2007 at 8:01 PM
catlib said...: barbaric practices isn't it?
well, images provided wasn't really my grandma but I thought in the West everyone's fascinated by it. So why not share it. urrrr..glad I wan't born in the early 20th century.; October 9, 2007 at 5:16 AM
Anonymous said...: I thought is was your grandma too!!
You need to get her feet Phung because it is so rare now to get someone like grandma!
LN; October 10, 2007 at 8:51 PM

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