TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Chinese foot bindingthe vanishing lotus /
DA  - 2004.
CY  - New York, NY :
AU  - Joani, Tang Yuen Mei.
AU  - Tely, Fung Wing.
PB  - Filmakers Library,
PP  - New York, NY :
LA  - This edition in English.
PY  - 2004.
N1  - Originally released as DVD.
N1  - Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
ID  - 1355729
KW  - Footbinding
KW  - Women's issues
TI  - Chinese foot bindingthe vanishing lotus /
LK  - http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641270
UR  - http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641270
ER  -