중국문화 `전족`에 관한 레포트(영문)

소개

중국의 문화인 "전족"에 관한 영문 레포트 입니다.
전족이란?, 전족의 기원, 전족이 지속된 이유, 전족반대 운동 등에 관해 서술하였습니다.

목차

1. What is Footbinding?
2. Origin of Footbinding
3. Cause of the lasting Footbinding
4. Anti-Footbinding movement
5. Conclusion

본문내용

What is Footbinding?
In the world, there are various customs which represent the respective nation’s own culture. We need to respect other country’s culture, but something is unacceptable thing. Food binding was one of the kinds of things, an old Chinese custom in which women’s feet were tightly bound to make them abnormally small. "There are a thousand buckets of tears for one who binds her feet" Like this old saying it was a cruel practice which showed vividly the tragic of women at that time. Besides it implied various ideologies, politics, and social hidden intention which women were considered as human being without rights by the authority of men. Therefore we think of it as not only an inhuman act, but also try to find the hidden points swept under the rug. This essay will look into the tearful history of women endured all agonies of the past in great detail by looking through the origin of Footbinding, the cause of lasting Footbinding, and anti-Footbinding movement.

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However, the anti-Footbinding movement had not fully cared of women who had tiny feet. It meant that the way of the abolition of Footbinding was a little bit chaotic and unfair. The campaigns either infantilized or humiliated them by exposing their bodies to ridicule or inspection in public. The humiliation did not stem from abuses or imperfect execution, but was embedded in the culture of national shame that produced the urgency to unbind feet in the first place. Furthermore, the tactic of the campaigns is inherently paradoxical: the spectacle of female suffering, which provoked people to change their thinking and behavior, accentuated the association of femaleness with passivity and victimhood. Narratives of female suffering conferred power onto those who publicized them, be they male nationalist reformers or urban educated women, who occupied a male subject position. One woman’s pride and freedom was predicated on another woman’s shame and bondage.

참고자료

· Ko, Dorothy, 「Cinderella`s sisters : a revisionist history of Footbinding」, University of California Press , 2007
· Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 「Women and the family in Chinese history」, Routledge , 2003
· 노령, 「중국 여성 : 전족 한 쌍에 눈물 두 동이」, 시그마북스 , 2008