THE CHINESE LADY Teacher Information Packet

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Unbound: China’s last ‘lotus feet’ – in pictures 103 Years after foot binding was banned, a few women still live with the severe deformity it caused. Jo Farrell tracked down 50 of them, all in old age, and photographed some for her book Living History: Bound Feet Women of China. The last women in China with bound feet: ‘They thought it would give them a better life’ Joe Farrell Mon 15 Jun 2015 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jun/15/unbound-chinas-last-lotus-feet-in-pictures

Pue Hui Ying, 76 Years old in 2011, Yunnan province

Hou Guan Yu, 89 years old in 2010, Shandong province 25


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