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China’s Crusade Against Foot Binding

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 12, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 19.

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China’s Crusade Against Foot Binding

OPTIMISTIC Chinese are talking as if foot binding were given up in China, but the fact is that in the interior no improvement is yet to be noticed. Dr. Morrison, of the London Times, estimates that in the whole empire only one out of twenty of the women and girls over eight is blessed with natural feet. But the Chinese government is in earnest in the crusade against foot binding, and within three months the ministry of education has forbidden any girl to be admitted to school who dresses in foreign clothes or has unnatural feet.