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Posted Oct 22, 2003 by Mina
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  | | THis is a shocking, but fascinating article. Unfortunately I now fel sick, but that is down to the process (I refuse to call it art) of footbinding, rather than the writing.
The only thing that I think is missing is the answer to the question - can a bound foot ever be unbound? I read 'A Small Woman' when I was a child, and I remember her unbinding children's feet, but I don't remember if it was possible to release feet that had been bound for decades.
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Posted Oct 22, 2003 by Baron Grim
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| | Yep... definitely more than I really wanted to know. I remember seeing a show on this subject a LONG time ago. I couldn't watch much of it after what bound feet looked like. Mina, I really don't think bound feet could be 'unbound' without some serious surgery and even then they'd still be mishappen. Knowing how little can be done to correct the effects of rheumatiod arthritis I can't see much more success for bound feet.  <shudder>
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Posted Oct 27, 2003 by Farlander
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| | thanks to everybody who read this! 
mina, count zero - to answer your question about whether bound feet can be undone: yes, to a certain extent it *can* (that's why the practice continues for years after the perfect 'shape' has been attained), but if you're talking about whether the feet can ever look normal again, that would be a definite NO. i think that once the bones are broken and set and healed in that conformation, they are unable to return to their original conformation. my aunt has a good friend whose husband is from china. *his* mother had bound feet. i remember them particularly well because we used to pay their family visits when i was a kid, and i used to hate going because i got the heebie-jeebies from looking at her contorted feet. <shudder>
(she lived to be about 110, by the way)
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Posted May 15, 2006 by iPad
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| | I remember seeing that programme and the feet were disgusting. This may sound horrific but they remind me of malformed feotus limbs. Just reading this article had my skin crawling and feeling sick, not an easy task! 
I can't remember which ancient culture it was but they bound the heads of the infant royal males which "coned" their skulls. It made it very clear who was royal and who wasn't.
No doubt some time in the future, they will look back at some of our cosmetic surgery like breast enhancement and look at with equal revultion.
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