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  2. Foot binding - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Foot Emancipation Society - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Zeng Jinlian - Wikipedia

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    Zeng was born on 26 June 1964 in Yuanjiang, Hunan, to a poor farming family, as the youngest of four children, [a] growing up in Nanzui Town by Muping Lake. Her parents Zeng Xianmao and Yu Xuemei [b] were 163 cm (5 ft 4.2 in) and 156 cm (5 ft 1.4 in) respectively, with all her siblings being in within similar height range, with a brother being measured at 158 cm (5 ft 2 in) at age 18. [1]

  5. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Wikipedia

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    A marriage is not made by choice and has only one purpose—to have sons." This relationship begins when the girls are seven and goes until adulthood when they are mothers. The two girls experience the painful process of foot binding at the same time. Foot-binding was the tradition of binding a young daughter's feet by wrapping cloth around ...

  6. China's 7-foot-3 teen basketball star towers over her ... - AOL

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    Zhang, whose parents both played professional basketball in China, was 5 feet 2 inches tall in the first grade, according to Chinese state media. By sixth grade, she had reached 6 foot 9.

  7. Women in ancient and imperial China - Wikipedia

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    An early Chinese feminist was Qiu Jin, who underwent the painful process of unbinding her own bound feet, attacked footbinding and other traditional practices. [135] In 1902, the Empress Dowager Cixi issued an anti-foot binding edict, but it was soon rescinded. [ 136 ]

  8. Chinese female drill team in Seattle challenges image of an ...

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    The girls’ drill team was founded in 1952 by a local group of girls called the Chi-ettes with the help of Ruby Chow, a prominent Chinese American restaurateur and civic activist in Seattle, the ...

  9. 110 Chinese girl baby names to inspire you - AOL

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    Picking a Chinese baby girl name may feel overwhelming: There are many beautiful names to choose from, and most Chinese baby girl names have strong meanings.