The hundred-year search for the “Three-Inch Golden Lotus”

In old world China, small feet epitomized feminine beauty. Foot binding was a symbol of status and refinement. Widely seen as barbaric, the practice was banned in 1912; however, some of the women who endured this tradition are still alive today. As empires and governments collapsed, these women have fought for survival. Confronted by the tragedies of world wars, civil war, the Great Famine, and the Cultural Revolution, they struggled over more than a century for themselves and their families. Today, these living remnants of a world long gone stand witness to the rise of modern China. ......