through-a-historic-lens:Three young girls with bound feet. In imperial China, young girls would have
through-a-historic-lens:Three young girls with bound feet. In imperial China, young girls would have their feet bound, crushing them into a tiny, mutilated shape they called the “lotus foot.”The Communist Party viewed foot binding as a symbol of China’s “backwardness” that needed to be eliminated.Liao Chow, Shanxsi. 1920′s. -- source link