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March 11, 1912, President Sun urged the female people not to practice foot-binding. Foot-binding is unique in Chinese custom. It tortured Chinese female for nearly one thousand years. Certainly gender historians are concerned with this issue. More than that, recently scholars developed a new approach to review it from the aspect of technology. For details you may refer to our Bulletin: Miao Yen-wei, "Visual Technologies and the Representation of Footbinding in Late-Qing China".
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