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Film Review / Revue de FilmFootbinding: Search for the Three Inch Golden Lotus. Directed and produced by Yue-Qing Yang. 47:45 minutes. 2004. ©EastWest Film Enterprise. Moving Images Distribution, 402 West Fender Street, Ste 606, Vancouver, BC V6B 1T6, telephone: (604) 684-3014 or (800) 684-3014, url: www.movingimages.caFootbinding was practised in China for centuries until it was finally discontinued in the first half of the 20th century. In China today there still survive dwindling numbers of elderly women who had their feet bound. This permanent bodily transformation, a physical compression and containment of the feet of small girls, fascinates people for different reasons. Some marvel at the artistry of the tiny foot and the extreme efforts to achieve this particular beauty ideal, while others struggle to understand how and why a society could permanently hobble girls' and women's ability to stand on firm feet, to walk briskly, to run or to jump. Born and raised in China, Canadian f
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Film Review / Revue de FilmFootbinding: Search for the Three Inch Golden Lotus. Directed and produced by Yue-Qing Yang. 47:45 minutes. 2004. ©EastWest Film Enterprise. Moving Images Distribution, 402 West Fender Street, Ste 606, Vancouver, BC V6B 1T6, telephone: (604) 684-3014 or (800) 684-3014, url: www.movingimages.caFootbinding was practised in China for centuries until it was finally discontinued in the first half of the 20th century. In China today there still survive dwindling numbers of elderly women who had their feet bound. This permanent bodily transformation, a physical compression and containment of the feet of small girls, fascinates people for different reasons. Some marvel at the artistry of the tiny foot and the extreme efforts to achieve this particular beauty ideal, while others struggle to understand how and why a society could permanently hobble girls' and women's ability to stand on firm feet, to walk briskly, to run or to jump. Born and raised in China, Canadian f
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