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Chinese Footbinding In addressing the subject of footbinding, one primary difficulty becomes apparent - that much remains within the realm of the unknowable. Any factual knowledge about the practice may only be drawn from 19th- and 20th-century writings, drawings or photographs. In addition, many of these documents represent a distinctly Western point of view, as they are primarily composed of missionary accounts and the literature of the various anti -footbinding societies.[1] The historical

John King Fairbank, the renowned scholar of Chinese history from Harvard, in his essay ‘Footbinding’ talks in detail about the social malaise that dominated Chinese society for almost 1000 years. He says, “Foot binding spread as a mark of gentility and upper class status” and was a means to “preserve female chastity.” But I agree with his opinion that it was ultimately the manifestation of the oppression of women. Since ancient times, women in China were considered chattels, born to serve the men

Foot Binding Many years ago the sign of feminine beauty was small feet. To accomplish this goal many women would bind their feet. Foot binding is an extremely excruciating custom from Asia and went from 970 AD to the 1950’s. For 1,000 years foot binding was considered the standard of feminine beauty. There are a lot of folk tales tales on how foot binding was started but the one I am going to tell you about is from the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Li Ku, saw his consort( a companion, in a particular

The origins of footbinding date back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279), and since then, many historians have debated the motivation for this seemingly strange tradition. Some view footbinding as “an expression of male dominance” or as a “demonstration that families did not need their women’s labor” (Modern China 348). Others interpret footbinding as vital towards understanding standards of “sexuality, fashion, prestige, and beauty” (Modern China 348). The practice of binding feet can be viewed as an

Young Chinese Girls Footbinding in 900 C.E. In the article “Footbinding: From Status Symbol to Subjugation” Lousia Lima wrote about how Chinese women at young age had to footbinding. Footbinding at the young age is actually bad for their feet because their toes would bend from those shoes which it looks like they have small feet. Lima explained how it was started in china, “But historical records from the Song dynasty (960-1279 A.D.) date footbinding as beginning during the reign of Li Yu, who ruled

In 1793, Lord Macartney, a British diplomat, traveled to the Qing Empire in order to meet with the ruler, Emperor Qianlong, and discuss several proposals on the behalf of Britain. The primary source written by Lord Macartney details his observations of his meeting with Qianlong in 1793, as well as an overview of the system of government in place in China at the time. Lord Macartney recorded his observations in a journal, and saw the British government and monarch as his audience. The primary source

The Taiping Rebellion occurred in China during the 19th century, specifically during the time period of 1850-1864. It is cited as being the largest and most successful rebellion that occurred during the 19th century. The two forces that were a part of this rebellion were the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, also known as the Hakka’s, and the Qing dynasty, also known as the Manchus. The main cause of the rebellion was that Hong Xiuquan, a Hakka and the main leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, received

The breakdown of the basic nature of Chinese and English lyrical relations shows that they can be distinguished from one another through the use of metaphor to evoke the relationship between scene and feeling and vehicle and tenor respectively. The Western poetry’s use of metaphor celebrates the use of human deception through a made-up connection between that which is being talked about (tenor) and the one who talks about it (vehicle). On the other hand, the Chinese poetry’s relies on the metaphor

nation destroyed by rebellions and many other events. Enthusiasm to serve the country, Du Fu was incapable in remaining its catastrophes and could only conscientiously compose his poem by examination and passionate. While some of his poems reveal his humor in harmonies moments, most of them tell the hardship, breakup and union of family members, horrific life during the war, and his encounters with refugees. Du Fu has an incredible power of depicting the human responsible and surroundings.Deeply looking

“Spring Scene” is a poem by the Tu Fu (Du Fu; 712-770). Tu was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty along with Li Bai (李白). This poem was written in 757, when Du Fu was in the capital Chang’an, where just been conquered by the An Lushan Rebellion. Tu as a government official wrote this poem in a deep pain of losing the country and been separated from this family and all those old times. Here I will select four edition of this poem by different translators, discussing how did the translators