--- Jay Heuman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Naturally, one must ask who saw this as a problem?  Did the
> Chinese people?  Did ALL the Chinese people?  Did SOME
> Chinese people?

According to my Chinese officemate, she said that all Chinese women had their
feet bound. If they didn't, they couldn't get a husband and they needed a
husband to survive. The practice was around for about 300 years.

Deb

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