CHINA | Sunday, 6 November 2011 | Views [537]
One of the last set of women to have her feet bound, she crawls around the courtyard on her hands and knees when she thinks she is alone. In her 80s now, her bound feet are still painful. In younger days she was known locally for her skill as a paper cutter. Here, with a chopped-off fingertip (farming accident) and a giant tumor in her wrist, she takes scissors and slices through a delicate sheet of paper for the first time in many years.
