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I’m a Chinese peasant girl in 1225, and my community has recently paid tribute to invading Mongol forces. We get to live, will my life change drastically?

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I’m a Chinese peasant girl in 1225, and my community has recently paid tribute to invading Mongol forces. We get to live, will my life change drastically?	247
What evidence exists that foot binding was a (partly) sexual practise?	4