ECON 1915 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Foot Binding, Chinese Art, Barefoot Doctor
6 Feb 2017
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Chinese foot binding- the ideal 3 inch model. Kinship and family are super important in chinese culture. Have a male son to pay respects to ancestors also carry on family name. Women with bound feet are perfect for handiwork bound feet kept women sitting down and bored, and ready to work and make cloth. 3 main mistaken assumptions about fb in rural areas: Marriage was the real reason behind it: no significant statistical real social mobility to marriage, in chinese art, attention to genitalia rather than feet. Anti fb campaigns ended the custom: last places to stop binding were last places affected by industrial rev, in these places, custom dropped because it was banned by communism, anti fb campaigns had little impact in rural areas. Elite: reasons for fb are different but they also did handiwork. Chinese women can divorce in 1950 bc communist party: must be independent.
