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Dorothy Ko, in the introduction of her book Every Step A Lotus, makes clear why the Chinese social phenomena of the practice of footbinding deserves a close attention and a serious study. It is an issue controversial in today's society drawing opinions from between two extremes of moral outrage and admiration. And because the practice was not exclusive to a few groups outside the main population in China but deeply rooted in the cultural history and practiced by a large number of women as an ordinary custom, an understanding of the origins or foodbinding is also important.
Ko uses shoes as text which means that she would try to gather any information or clues about footbinding that the shapes, artwork, size, the owners, time periods, and the locations of the shoes can reveal. She starts by studying the shoes found in Lady Huang Sheng's tomb. She concludes that the shoes were intended for everyday use and not ceremonial purposes by observing other items found in the tomb. But that......

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