Chinese foot binding : the vanishing lotus / by Tang Yuen Mei Joani and Fung Wing Chuen Tely.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Joani, Tang Yuen Mei, author.

Contributor:

Tely, Fung Wing.

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Filmakers library online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Footbinding--China.

Footbinding.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (53 minutes).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2004.

Language Note:

This edition in English.

System Details:

digital

data file

Summary:

A pair of small feet -- three-inch golden lilies -- were once the male-designated yardstick for feminine beauty in China. A young girl s feet were broken and bound inwards along the instep, a process that caused excruciating pain. Systematically bound, day after day, the stunted feet began to take on the coveted look of that profoundly sensuous image, the lotus bulb. Today there are fewer than 400 women with bound feet among the 1.25 billion people of China. Most of them are over 80 years old. Some of these women tell us of the event that branded their lives with its singular mark. Once an erotic symbol of beauty and eligibility, the bound foot confronts us with a custom that subjugated women to a brutal beauty myth.

Notes:

Originally released as DVD.

Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).

OCLC:

747796509

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.