Little Foot Dance -- A Footbinding Story from the Countryside

Author: Yang Yang
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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features: In the highlands of Yunnan, there is an ancient castle-like village called Liuyi Village. To this day, nearly three hundred women from past dynasties, who had their feet bound, still live there. They are known as "China's Last Little Foot Tribe." This book uses adventurous words and images to conduct a rare visit, excavation, and archaeological exploration of the village and these foot-bound women. With her unique upbringing in the village, the author offers a calm, reverent, and humorous perspective on the history and reality of the three-inch golden lotus. Her observations, listening, and storytelling reach an unparalleled depth and completeness, poetically portraying the life dance of the bound feet with the earth, the spiritual dance of the bound feet with society, the suffering dance of the bound feet with the body, and the temporal dance of the bound feet with history. Through each shocking story of foot-binding, the women's earliest memories are restored in an authentic way, their deepest roots are boldly explored, and their greatest suffering is expressed with relief. This book provides a very unconventional text, a tearful testimony, and a magical journey for the history of foot-binding in China.