Chinese footbinding

Just read Fairbank’s China: A New Hist. There’s a section on footbinding of women which was essentially the disfigurement of women’s feet (Han Chinese anyway) to satisfy a man’s foot fetish for ‘golden lillies. It was almost as grotesque or maybe just as grotesque as Islamic genital mutilation. It started in the tenth century and was still visible up to the 1930s. From about 5 to around 15 a girl’s feet were bound in such a way so that the front or side of the foot would bend toward the heel, looking at that point more like a kind of weird hoof (how they got ‘golden lilly’ out of that is beyond my fetish imagination). Women would never run again, or even be able to walk properly; I guess it was a surefire way of keeping your women at home Anyway here’s a picture from an exhibit on the subject in Taiwan.

Visual extrapolation

Life in the Grand Banana Republic–circa 2025?  Here.

Studious Asian immigrant students adjust to school in third world (the Grand Banana Republic)

Highly academically performing Asias kids harassed and beaten by African American kids at school (case in point: third-world Philly). Here.

Related: Beaten for being white.

Related: The true story.

Tiger wife save face of Murdoch man with dunk shot of volleyball move

Chinese netizens speak on Wendi Deng: Chinese flying beauty does full chop. Here. (By the way, Deng is gorgeous, and her volley ball style of slap down is quite sexy).

“Hollywood Chinese”–exposing the stereotypes

Interested in the history of Chinese cinema in the Grand Banana Republic? Try Hollywood Chinese (includes a short clip).

One small step for man, one giant leap for Pastafarians

Pastafarians rule. Yes, long live religious head gear. Legal question, though: should there be a separation between state and pasta strainers?

The whites of ancient China

There’s a ton of these historical stories on Youtube; National Geographic also had a special on this.