Foot Binding & Educational Opportunities

Question 1

1. What were small feet seen as in China?
2. When did anti-foot binding campaigns begin?
   - Who started them?
3. When was foot binding banned in China?
   - However, it continued…where in particular?
4. A significant % of what ethnic group practiced foot binding?

Answer 1

1. Beautiful, sexy etc.
2. 1880s.
   - Christian missionaries.
3. 1911. • Northern villages.
4. Han Chinese.

Question 2

1. What % of girls over 7 years old were literate enough to read a simple letter in 1930s China?
   - What % of boys over 7 could do this?
2. What % of females received schooling?
   - What % of males received schooling?

Answer 2

1. 1%
   - 30%.
2. 2%.
   - 45%.