China was no exception. Women have never been treated well there. They were given away to prosperous suitors, or in many cases if the family was poor, they would be given away to be someone's concubine, just so that there are no extra mouths to feed. As if all of that wasn't enough, they also had to

Most of the women were illiterate, a lot of women became prostitutes because they had no other options. A lot died from starvation and mistreatment. Even women from the wealthy households were deprived of education. And none of the women had an opportunity to travel. Later during the opium craze they used the drug as an escape from all of their problems.

bind their feet since early childhood. A very painful procedure, that deformed their feet. For some reason it was considered beautiful to have small feet, when it came to marriage men would actually measure the size of a woman's foot to make sure that it was small enough.

Women gave birth at a very early age. In a poll taken at Daoyi in 1792 it shows that eighty-seven sons were born to women between the age of fift

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