Lotus shoes

Lotus shoes

Lotus shoes (蓮履, lianlǚ) refer to a pair of tiny shoes worn by women with bound foot in Chinese culture.

ee also

*Foot fetishism
*Shoe fetishism

References

* Dorothy Ko, "Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding". Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005.
* Dorothy Ko, "Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). Catalogue of a museum exhibit, with extensive comments.
* "Chinese Foot Binding- Lotus Shoes" Museum of the City of San Francisco.


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