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Foot binding (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 girls to change their shape and size. Feet altered by foot binding were known as lotus feet and the shoes made for them were known as lotus shoes.
Pretty Big Feet, released in the United States as For the Children, is a 2002 Chinese film directed by Yang Yazhou. It stars Ni Ping as a teacher in an extremely impoverished and barren town in Ningxia, and Yuan Quan as a volunteer teacher coming from Beijing to help the local education. The film won 4 awards at the Golden Rooster Awards.
A comparison between a woman with normal feet (left) and a woman with bound feet in 1902. Foot binding was a custom practiced on young girls and women for approximately one thousand years in China, beginning in the 10th century. In Chinese society, bound feet were considered beautiful and erotic.
Asian models were featured prominently in their music videos. [67] According to Marenda Tran, Asian women in the media tend to be portrayed in two ways: as an exotic foreigner, docile and nonthreatening and sexual but also innocent; or as the nerd who is still aesthetically pleasing, but also emotionless and career-oriented.
Foot binding was practiced among Chinese women from the Song dynasty up until the early 20th century. Women would wrap their feet tightly in order to keep them small, which was characterized as a feminine beauty at the time. [6] In Liu's installation pieces, she repeatedly shows an emotionless woman with her naked feet.
Female Chinese beauty standards have become a well-known feature of Chinese culture. A 2018 survey conducted by the Great British Academy of Aesthetic Medicine concluded that Chinese beauty culture prioritizes an oval face shape, pointed, narrow chin, plump lips, well defined Cupid's bows , and obtuse jaw angle. [ 1 ]
Foot whipping, falanga/falaka or bastinado is a method of inflicting pain and humiliation by administering a beating on the soles of a person's bare feet. Unlike most types of flogging , it is meant more to be painful than to cause actual injury to the victim.
As of 2023, Chinese girls receive more schooling on average than boys. [90]: 69 A number of studies attribute the improvement in girls' schooling to the effects of the one-child policy. [90]: 69 Gender disparity persisted into the 1990s for tertiary institutions. [89] By 2009, however, half of all college students were women.