Chinese footbinding expert and author, Dr Shirley See Yan Ma, talked to WiPS about the controversial tradition carried out by generations of Chinese women to restrict and bind their feet. Dr Ma took us on a literary, psychological and Jungian journey on the symbolism of the practice. Her book Footbinding: A Jungian Engagement with Chinese Culture and Psychology draws on personal history, popular myths, literature, and work with clients, and discusses how modern women still symbolically find their feet bound through this ancient practice.
