MY late grandmother was one of the last generation of women who had bound feet. In the beginning of this century, she was born in a small remote village inhabited by the Mongol and Han nationalities. In those years he...MY late grandmother was one of the last generation of women who had bound feet. In the beginning of this century, she was born in a small remote village inhabited by the Mongol and Han nationalities. In those years her mother bound her childish feet tightly, using strips of cloth, so her feet remained small and pointed. Although I didn’t know much about life when I was a child, I often felt constrained at the sight of my grandmother’s bound feet. While I was growing up, I read some books about women’s emancipation and started to be more concerned about the fate of women. Chinese women have struggled up a展开更多
文摘MY late grandmother was one of the last generation of women who had bound feet. In the beginning of this century, she was born in a small remote village inhabited by the Mongol and Han nationalities. In those years her mother bound her childish feet tightly, using strips of cloth, so her feet remained small and pointed. Although I didn’t know much about life when I was a child, I often felt constrained at the sight of my grandmother’s bound feet. While I was growing up, I read some books about women’s emancipation and started to be more concerned about the fate of women. Chinese women have struggled up a
