Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Currently I am reading Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. In the book, the author describes the Chinese tradition of binding feet. I couldn't wrap my head around this idea; what do the feet look like? How is it done? I always imagined women with petite feet but the pictures I found really blew my mind! Check this out...
Look at the teeny red shoes! The feet were only to be as large as a thumb. Can you imagine balancing on feet so small?
The feet are not only small, they are completely deformed. I thought this was insane but then I considered all the women I know who have breast implants. The women who get repeated plastic surgery, shots of botox in their faces. Liposuction. All the plastic surgery that woman get, is that not so different than foot-binding? I wonder if we told the women whose feet were bound about the plastic surgery taking place in the 21st century, would they think we were the crazy ones?
The book is very good so far, I recommend it. Happy Reading!
Labels: foot binding, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
posted by Cindy @ 11:01 PM |
8 Comments:
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Anonymous said...
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That is a very good observation, Cindy- how are women of the 21st century, who get breast implalnts different from those who had to get their feet bound back in the days?
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Jennifer said...
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hfI had read the book a couple of months ago and found it very interesting. I loved following the girls friendship through the years. I, like you, couldn't quite understand the whole foot binding thing and looked up images on google. It looks horribly painful.
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Erica Ridley said...
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I don't know how accurate this is (being as it came from a novel, not non-fiction) but I think in Memoirs of a Geisha, there's a line about how foot-binding is so the women will look beautiful with their shoes on, but that the men do not want to see their bare feet (because it is not a pretty sight, even to them). Interesting! @ 7:29 AM
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