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...Dorothy Ko, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, called footbinding "central to the experience of women" in China until the late 19th century...
Before an audience of 40, Ko said that to bind a child's foot a mother would break the toes of her six-year old daughter, bend them forward and bind them beneath the heel with a long piece of cloth...
Members of the Emerson Hall audience winced as Ko demonstrated with her hand and a scarf how the daughter's feet were kept bound for years, until they stopped growing...
...Ko said that the procedure, performed on almost every upper-class woman in pre-modern China, crippled its victims for life...
...This [candlelight vigil] is mostly for sentimental reasons," said Bing H. Ko, who organized the ceremony. "We're all Chinese, we've all gone through hopes which have been shattered in the last year...