"The women are large, they have fine figures and are, most of them, handsome. They wear a cotton cloth round the loins…"

"It was a foot in name only. The misshapen mass looked more like a hoof bisected by a crack."

"Strange to think it was an erotic thing. To us, the smell of rotting flesh would be unbearable. But back then men wro…"

"The bandages that women used for footbinding were about 10 feet long, so it was difficult for them to wash their feet…"

"There's not a single other woman in Liuyicun who could fit their feet into my shoes. When my generation dies, people …"

"Looking back on it, I am not sure what I was expecting. Such cruel and ugly words are used to describe bound feet. I …"

"Most people’s immediate reaction is how bad this custom was. I now see it as more of a means to an end. In their soci…"

"I came into this project with preconceptions like most people have, that this was a custom only done by the elite who…"

"Certainly the "three-inch golden lotuses" were seen as the ultimate erogenous zone, with Qing dynasty pornographic bo…"

"For one of my pieces on camera, I balanced a pair of embroidered doll shoes in the palm of my hand, as I talked about…"