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Footbinding was a practice in China where young girls' feet were tightly bound and broken to prevent further growth. This created the lotus foot, a small disabled foot that was considered beautiful and desirable as a sign of femininity. The painful process could take years and left the feet permanently crippled and deformed. The poems convey the suffering endured by women and girls to conform to ideals of beauty, with constrained and uncomfortable feet crushed small to fit restrictive shoes despite being naturally large. Both discuss how the tradition compelled an unnatural physical restriction for purely aesthetic reasons.

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Foot Binding Cyber Sandwich

Footbinding was a practice in China where young girls' feet were tightly bound and broken to prevent further growth. This created the lotus foot, a small disabled foot that was considered beautiful and desirable as a sign of femininity. The painful process could take years and left the feet permanently crippled and deformed. The poems convey the suffering endured by women and girls to conform to ideals of beauty, with constrained and uncomfortable feet crushed small to fit restrictive shoes despite being naturally large. Both discuss how the tradition compelled an unnatural physical restriction for purely aesthetic reasons.

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FOOTBINDING

IN CHINA
Partner A

Partner B

Partner A will write in the BLUE


boxes. Partner B will write in the
RED boxes. YELLOW boxes are
where you work together.
PARTNER A ARTICLE READING
READ AND TAKE NOTES ON THE ARTICLE. LOOK FOR THE MAIN
Click here IDEA AND SUPPORTING EVIDENCE.

to read
your article.
PARTNER B ARTICLE READING
READ AND TAKE NOTES ON THE ARTICLE. LOOK FOR THE MAIN
Click here IDEA AND SUPPORTING EVIDENCE.
to read
your article.
COMPARE THE ARTICLES
MAIN IDEAS OF ARTICLE A SIMILARITIES IN THE ARTICLES MAIN IDEAS OF ARTICLE B
PARTNER A POETRY ANALYSIS
Get a carpenter’s adze to make the shoe‐bottoms READ AND ANALYZE THE POEM. WHAT IS IT
Get a carpenter to make the outside of the shoes ABOUT? WHAT IMAGERY DOES IT CONVEY?
Use a card of yarn
Eight lengths of fine cloth
Altogether it will take three years
To make a pair of embroidered shoes
Call a girl to try the shoes
Whether short or long
The girl stretches her foot
to fit the embroidered shoes
The shoe small the foot large
Constrained and uncomfortable
Awkwardly and crookedly to the back wall
The left foot crushing eight tigers
The right foot crushing nine wolves
Source: Crossley, Pamela. 2002. The Manchus: The People of Asia.
PARTNER B POETRY ANALYSIS
The heel of a high‐heel shoe is the binding of READ AND ANALYZE THE POEM. WHAT IS IT
foot‐binding ABOUT? WHAT IMAGERY DOES IT CONVEY?
It has been the same road under different feet
The footsteps of the hundred year women's
movement
is merely an aesthetic change from the Chinese to
the Western ‐
turning a compelled two dimensional restriction
into a freely chosen three dimensional bending
The social status is raised for a shoe‐heel
while the price is walking on tiptoes for life
Oh, the ever‐suffering feet, no matter how innocent
you are
the definition of 'feminine beauty' is to deform you
Because this is the base enabling men to stand
firmly
Source: "Philosophical Poems." Philosophical Poems. 06 Oct. 2013..
COMPARE THE POEMS
UNIQUE TO POEM A SIMILARITIES IN THE POEMS UNIQUE TO POEM B
PARTNER A LUSHI POEM PARTNER B LUSHI POEM
WRITE YOUR
LUSHI POEMS
Lushi are traditional
Chinese poems that are
8 lines of 8 characters
(words). For this
summary activity you
will write a poem of 8
lines of 8 words each
that uses lines from the
documents (FOUND)
and lines that are
original (CREATED BY
YOU).

When you are done,


record yourself reading
your poem on Flipgrid.

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