文化論の視角より見たる中国歴史上纒足廃止運動失敗の原因 : ハイヒール廃止運動との比較を中心に

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"Culture" is a complex that consists of life way formed and knowledge gotten by human beings while concerning with their environment. The essential attributes of culture are universality, society (community), diachronic and patrimony. The most difference between human beings and animals is that human beings has culture, their two legs erect and walk. With evolving of human beings foot, shoes were invented. Moreover, foot and shoes became fashionable, have come to emblem. For example, foot binding in the history of China and high heels at the present. Neither the foot binding nor high heels is bad for health, therefore abolition movements of them happened in the history, but frustrated. The root cause is in the essential attributes of culture.