Su Xi Rong, 75 in 2008, Shandong province She was known as the most beautiful woman in the village because of her small, well-formed, bound feet. I saw her again in November 2014. She can no longer walk very far as she has put on a lot of weight, and her small feet cannot support her. Su Xi Rong told me that because of feudal traditions, if you did not bind your feet you would not get married. If she tried to unbind her feet, her grandmother would cut a slice of skin off her toes to punish her. All photographs and captions: Jo Farrell