Sentence examples for Chinese foot from inspiring English sources
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A chi, a traditional Chinese unit of distance based on the human forearm, now standardized variously as 1/3 or 10/33 of a meter.
Chinese foot doctors, who go from village to village treating their patients, don't get paid unless their patients are well.
Chinese foot binding lasted for nearly a millennium, and it wasn't restricted to the leisure classes: many peasants subjected their daughters to the practice.
Chinese foot charts are based on acupuncture meridians.
It's the 21st-century version of Chinese foot binding.
The few Chinese "foot soldiers" who did turn out were usually outnumbered by the police.
Sometimes they are visited upon flesh and bones -- Chinese foot binding, for example, or the brass neck coils that the Padaung girls of Burma wear from age 6.
Campaigners hope FGM will be phased out within a generation, to join Chinese foot-binding as a horror of history.
In previous books, Harrison has leaned toward the lurid — incest, the Spanish Inquisition, Chinese foot-binding — but here she offers a more muted tale, set in Alaska in the early nineteen-hundreds.
His store, De Vera, amid Chinese foot-rub salons and stores selling Asian herbal cosmetics at the corner of Howard and Crosby, offers a carefully edited selection of objects, from 17th-century Italian figurines to modern glass vases from Australia.
Chinese foot-binding was practiced for a thousand years.
It was like full-body Chinese foot-binding torture.
