| The practice of footbinding in China, for example, which lasted some 1000 years, was abandoned in little more than a generation. |
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| I will tell people that footbinding in China ended in 20 years – why can't FGC end the same way? |
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| Supporters of the book's basic accuracy countered on the points raised by skeptics such as footbinding and the Great Wall of China. |
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| Haw also argued that footbinding was not common even among Chinese during Polo's time and almost unknown among the Mongols. |
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| In poorer families who could not afford the bandages or lack of labour associated with a hobbled woman, footbinding was not done until the girls were older. |
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| It's like saying it's time we reclaimed footbinding. |
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| Haw also argued that practices such as footbinding were not common even among Chinese during Polo's time and almost unknown among the Mongols. |
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| While Polo describes paper money and the burning of coal, he fails to mention the Great Wall of China, tea, Chinese characters, chopsticks, or footbinding. |
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