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Chinese Footbinding Culture Museum

TIME : 2016/2/17 11:58:30

This fascinating museum charts the history of footbinding in China with examples of the shoes that constituted, as captions in the museum attest, to 'The Golden Lotus complex that was the freakish mentality of the males at that time'. Periodically banned, including a Taiping prohibition in the 19th century, footbinding was final abolished in the 20th century. Get the lowdown here.