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Foot binding

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. In late imperial China, bound feet were…

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Hanyu Pinyin
chánzú
Hokkien POJ
pa̍k-kha
IPA
[ʈʂʰǎn.tsǔ] · [tsat̚˧.kœk̚˧]
Jian'ou Romanized
cuŏi-káu
Jyutping
zaat3-goek3
Romanization
6gniau 5shiau-ciaq

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related to References and further reading · 156
Foot binding → Aching, Affect, Ambivalent Orientalism, Anchor Books, Archived, Asian American Studies, Asian Studies, ASIANetwork Exchange, Asiatic Studies, Assumptions Under Scrutiny, Beauty, Berg, Berger, Bibcode, Binding Altered Not, Bossen, Bound Feet, Brill, Brown, Ca
related to In popular culture · 71
Foot binding → After, Ailin, An Epic Novel, Anna Bunina, Black Butler, Bright Moon, British, Bunina, China, China Dolls, Chinese, Chinese American, Country, Earth, Edward Rutherfurd's, Emerald Witch, Emily Prager's, Feng Jicai, Feng Shui, Flowers
related to Variations and prevalence · 39
Foot binding → Based, By, China, Chinese, Feet, Foot, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hakka, Han, Hebei, Hill Gates, Historian John, Hoklo, However, Hubei, Hunan, It
related to Decline · 33
Foot binding → Alicia Little, Amoy, Chinese, Christian, Christianity, Divine Nature, Hakka, Han, Han Chinese, Heavenly Foot Society, However, If, In, It, John MacGowan, Li Hongzhang, Little, MacGowan, Manchu, Members
related to Other interpretations · 23
Foot binding → Bossen, China, Chinese, Christian, Coupled, Fashion, First Opium War, Foot, Footbinding, Gates, Hebei, Hill Gates, John Shepherd, Laurel Bossen, Mechanization, More, Nanjing, Some, The, These
related to Beauty and erotic appeal · 22
Foot binding → According, Before, China, Chinese, Cinderella, Duan Chengshi, European, Even, Foot, For, Gulik, Howard Levy, In, Qing, Robert, Some, Tang, The, Therefore, This
related to Later eras · 21
Foot binding → As, At, By, China, Chinese, During, European, However, Ibn Battuta, Italian, Marco Polo, Ming, Odoric, Pordenone, Qing, Song, The, The Mongols, This, Yuan
related to Origin · 20
Foot binding → An, Baojuan, Buddhist, Consort Pan, Emperor Li Yu, In, Li Yu, One, Padmavati, Pan Yunu, She, Song, Southern Qi Emperor Xiao, Southern Tang, The, The Emperor, There, This, Yao Niang, Yao Niang's
related to Role of Confucianism · 19
Foot binding → According, Confucian, Confucianism, During, Fujian, Furthermore, Gulik, However, It, Lin Yutang, Modern Confucian, Patricia Ebrey, Robert, Some Confucian, Song, Song Confucian, The Neo-Confucian Cheng Yi, Tu Weiming, Zhu Xi
related to Feminist perspective · 14
Foot binding → Bound, China, Chinese, Foot, Historians, Historical, In, It, Qiu Jin, Rather, She, The, Thus, Western

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feet foot binding women bound chinese practice china also footbinding century dynasty han would girls among toes may men late

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Foot bindingHanyu Pinyinchánzú1.00infobox
Foot bindingHokkien POJpa̍k-kha1.00infobox
Foot bindingIPA[ʈʂʰǎn.tsǔ]1.00infobox
Foot bindingIPA[tsat̚˧.kœk̚˧]1.00infobox
Foot bindingJian'ou Romanizedcuŏi-káu1.00infobox
Foot bindingJyutpingzaat3-goek31.00infobox
Foot bindingRomanization6gniau 5shiau-ciaq1.00infobox
Foot bindingSimplified Chinese缠足1.00infobox
Foot bindingSimplified Chinese扎脚1.00infobox
Foot bindingSimplified Chinese绕小脚1.00infobox
Foot bindingSimplified Chinese缚跤1.00infobox
Foot bindingSimplified Chinese扎跤1.00infobox
Foot bindingTaishanesezat1 giak11.00infobox
Foot bindingTraditional Chinese纏足1.00infobox
Foot bindingTraditional Chinese紮腳1.00infobox
Foot bindingTraditional Chinese繞小腳1.00infobox
Foot bindingTraditional Chinese縛跤1.00infobox
Foot bindingTraditional Chinese紮跤1.00infobox
Foot bindingTranscriptionsTranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinchánzúWade–Gilesch'an2-tsu2IPA[ʈʂʰǎn.tsǔ]1.00infobox
Foot bindingTranscriptionsTranscriptionsYue: CantoneseYale Romanizationjaat-geukJyutpingzaat3-goek3IPA[tsat̚˧.kœk̚˧]other YueTaishanesezat1 giak11.00infobox
Foot bindingTranscriptionsTranscriptionsWuRomanization6gniau 5shiau-ciaq1.00infobox
Foot bindingTranscriptionsTranscriptionsSouthern MinHokkien POJpa̍k-kha1.00infobox
Foot bindingTranscriptionsTranscriptionsNorthern MinJian'ou Romanizedcuŏi-káu1.00infobox
Foot bindingWade–Gilesch'an2-tsu21.00infobox
Foot bindingYale Romanizationjaat-geuk1.00infobox

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