It's estimated that, at its nineteenth-century peak, foot binding was carried out on as high as 50 percent of China's female population, though the controversial practice has largely disappeared in the past century. But it's not yet history – we hear the amazing stories of some of the last surviving ladies with bound feet in Beijing.
Cameron Hack is a Beijing-based British photographer behind the Humans of China project, 'exploring China one person at a time'. Check out the WeChat account (ID: Humans-of-China) for more extraordinary stories from seemingly ordinary people.