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footbinding: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Beverley Jackson. Splendid Slippers: A Thousand Years of an Erotic Tradition (1997); Dorothy Ko. Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet (2001).

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Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Physiology - Understanding the form and function in Chinese bound foot from last-generation cases. Dec 20, 2024
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Economic correlates of footbinding: Implications for the importance of Chinese daughters’ labor. Jul 15, 2024
Add new Web site: Bridgewater College - BC Digital Commons - Love and Labor: Footbinding in Rural China in the Twentieth Century. Jan 17, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - “The Very Poetry of Motion:” Missionaries and Footbinding in Late Qing China. Nov 10, 2023
Add new Web site: LiveScience - Ming Dynasty Skeletons Reveal Secrets of Foot-Binding. Aug 31, 2023
Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - Last Traces of the Ancient Foot Binding Tradition Captured on Film. Feb 18, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - "Footbinding in the Museum”. Sep 15, 2022
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Foot-Binding. Mar 29, 2018
Add new Web site: The Samurai Archives - Samurai Wiki - Footbinding. Mar 29, 2018
New article added. Aug 01, 2014
New bibliography added. Aug 01, 2014
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