Campaigns against foot-binding and genital mutilation show how, and how not, to alter harmful customs.

Foot binding was a feature in Han Chinese society for a large swathe of its history and, in certain regions, was nearly ubiquitous for generations. But because foot binding was not universal in ...

In Liuyi, even after the practice was banned, Fu says, she and others were hesitant to stop tightly binding their feet and hid them from officials, worried that the ban would be temporary.

STOMACH-churning photographs have shown the agonising effects of the practice of foot binding. The horrific Chinese custom was first adopted 1,000 years ago among courtesans, after a Tang Dynasty e… ...

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Apologies to sensitive readers. Here's a bodyhack that we do not recommend. This foot-binding photo is the "most popular" photo on Yahoo News right now. Zhou Guizhen, who is 86-years-old, shows ...

In the past twenty years many attempts have been made by the Chinese themselves to do away with foot binding. The strongest and most gifted native writers have used their pens and their influence ...

Striking images of the last surviving Chinese women with bound feet are going on display in Hong Kong this month. The photographs were taken over eight years by Hong Kong photographer Jo Farrell ...