Origins
During this dynasty, footbinding first become popular in China.
What is the Song Dynasty?
Footbinding was officially banned in China in this year but continued in some rural areas until the late 1930s.
When is 1912?
This special apparatus was begun by the emperor Xiao Baojuan where palace dancers walked and danced on top of gilded gold in the shape of lotus petals.
What is The Golden Lotus?
This movement began in the 19th century where both Chinese reformers and Western missionaries worked together to ban this practice.
What is anti-footbinding movements?
This type of writing reflected on Yung Chang, her mother and her grandmothers generational experiences in China.
Footbinding began within this social class.
Whar are the elite or upper-class women?
This Chinese reformer started his own anti-footbinding movement in Guangzhou in 1883.
Who is Kang Youwei?
Between these ages, it was most common for feet to be bound.
What is ages 5 through 7?
Anti-footbinding movements started near the end of this dynasty.
What is the Qing dynasty?
The author of Wild Swans.
Who is Jung Chang?
The primary reason for the practice of footbinding
This emperor banned footbinding in 1662 but withdrew the ban in 1668 because so many Chinese people were still practicing it.
Who is emperor Kagnxi?
This self-claimed "lotus addict" collected poems, stories and articles about footbinding in the 1930s.
Who is Yao Lingxi?
Footbinding was banned for these several reasons.
What is modernization and reform, health concerns and stopping female oppression?
Jung Chang's grandmothers name.
Who is Yu-Fang?
This legendary dancer is associated with the origin of footbinding.
Who is Yao Niang?
A revolutionary and feminist who used her writings and speeches to campaign against footbinding and promote women's rights.
Who is Qiu Jin?
A concunbine and the first legendary footbinder.
Who is Yao Niang?
Name of the group that wanted to ban footbinding.
What is the anti-footbinding society?
She grew up in the reform minded era of the Republic of China, (1912-1949) and did not have her feet bound.
Who is Bao Qin/ De-hong? (Jung Changs mom)
Footbinding resembles this type of flower.
What is a lotus flower?
The first secular Chinese organization against foot-binding that was founded in 1895.
What is the Natural Foot Society?
Mothers bind their daughters' feet and threaten they may lose face on their wedding day due to this traditional Chinese wedding ritual that involved teasing newlyweds and touching and playing with the bride's feet.
What is "Nao Fang"?
Footbinding was officially banned in China with the establishment of this government in 1949.
What is the People's Republic of China?
Jung Chang's grandmother had her feet bound during this dynasty.
What is the Qing Dynasty?