footbinding

Missionaries were horrified by foot-binding, spoke out vociferously against it, and established anti-footbinding societies beginning in the 1870's.

Anastasia Hobbet: The Honor Code and the Arab Gulf Anastasia Hobbet 2010

A change of attitude among the Chinese began, and before the turn of the century, China's honor world, "included the Japanese, Europeans, and Americans whose critical evaluations undermined China's claim to respect," Appiah writes, and in 1898 a Chinese intellectual would write a memo to the Imperial Palace saying, "There is nothing which makes us objects of ridicule so much as footbinding."

Anastasia Hobbet: The Honor Code and the Arab Gulf Anastasia Hobbet 2010

A change of attitude among the Chinese began, and before the turn of the century, China's honor world, "included the Japanese, Europeans, and Americans whose critical evaluations undermined China's claim to respect," Appiah writes, and in 1898 a Chinese intellectual would write a memo to the Imperial Palace saying, "There is nothing which makes us objects of ridicule so much as footbinding."

Anastasia Hobbet: The Honor Code and the Arab Gulf Anastasia Hobbet 2010

With bracing eloquence and a good ear for a story, he tells of three moral revolutions of this kind: how dueling ended in the Western world; how the Chinese came to see footbinding, customary for a millennium, as a cruel and brutish practice; and how the British outlawed slavery even against its own critical economic interests.

Anastasia Hobbet: The Honor Code and the Arab Gulf Anastasia Hobbet 2010

Missionaries were horrified by foot-binding, spoke out vociferously against it, and established anti-footbinding societies beginning in the 1870's.

Anastasia Hobbet: The Honor Code and the Arab Gulf Anastasia Hobbet 2010

Missionaries were horrified by foot-binding, spoke out vociferously against it, and established anti-footbinding societies beginning in the 1870's.

Anastasia Hobbet: The Honor Code and the Arab Gulf Anastasia Hobbet 2010

Based upon a novel by Carolyn See, the film is beautifully shot in China featuring friendship in two time periods, the Chinese practice of footbinding, and a secret language.

Regina Weinreich: No Shrinking Snow Flower: Wendi Murdoch in Southampton Regina Weinreich 2011

Based upon a novel by Carolyn See, the film is beautifully shot in China featuring friendship in two time periods, the Chinese practice of footbinding, and a secret language.

Regina Weinreich: No Shrinking Snow Flower: Wendi Murdoch in Southampton Regina Weinreich 2011

Based upon a novel by Carolyn See, the film is beautifully shot in China featuring friendship in two time periods, the Chinese practice of footbinding, and a secret language.

Regina Weinreich: No Shrinking Snow Flower: Wendi Murdoch in Southampton Regina Weinreich 2011

With bracing eloquence and a good ear for a story, he tells of three moral revolutions of this kind: how dueling ended in the Western world; how the Chinese came to see footbinding, customary for a millennium, as a cruel and brutish practice; and how the British outlawed slavery even against its own critical economic interests.

Anastasia Hobbet: The Honor Code and the Arab Gulf Anastasia Hobbet 2010