Aching For BeautyA fascinating and haunting exploration of the bound foot in Chinese culture. Why did so many Chinese women over a thousand year period bind their feet, enduring rotting flesh, throbbing pain, and hampered mobility throughout their lives? What compelled mothers to bind the feet of their young daughters, forcing the girls to walk about on their doubled over limbs to achieve the breakage of bones requisite for three inch feet? Why did Chinese men find