Why didn't the foreign Chinese dynasties (Yuan and Qing) get rid of weird shit like Eunuchs and Foot Binding? Surely this stuff would have appeared crazy to them.
you can't take away cruelty from a chinaman. especially against their own kind. that would be cruel.
>>17989074It was Chinamen doing it to Chinawomen.Why would they give a damn? They literally came to power by doing violence to both of them.
>>17989153Chinawomen to Chinawomen.Men had no say or input in it.>>17989074Yuan didn't give a fuck what their subjects were doing, much like the other horsefucker reigns elsewhere. Horsefuckers don't really have a civilisation they can impose on others so even when they become the rulers of someone, they largely just let them do their thing.Yuan let Chinks be Chinks and joined them. Mughals let Pajeets be Pajeets and joined them. Turks let Greeks be Greeks and joined them. Magyars let Slavs be Slavs and joined them. Bulgars let Slavs be Slavs and joined them. Mamluks let Egyptians be Egyptians and joined them.Qing weren't horsefuckers and so had their own ideas about things ought to look like. And indeed they did try to ban foot binding several times, as well as declaring it a shitty practice outright. Their bans just never worked out. They were already ruling a society of fully foot bound women. You can tell a guy to shave his head but you can't tell a woman with feet fucked for life to magically unfuck them and start being normal again.Likewise, the whole footbinding thing was a deeply personal, hidden, woman affair. It would be like trying to pass a law banning all methods of stopping the blood during periods... how will you enact that while still keeping order and the populace not rebelling? You can't just set up a million vagina-checkers and registries cataloguing the periods of all 150m women in China to keep track of when they ought to be bleeding and to prevent them using any possible method to stop it, be it in private or public.So yeah, banning it without the public approval is impossible. Once they realised that after several attempts and knowing that getting said approval is just as unlikely as convincing modern Americans to stop mutilating their dicks, they just gave up.
>>17989345>Yuan didn't give a fuck what their subjects were doing, much like the other horsefucker reigns elsewhere.DESU, the fucks government gave about what their subjects were doing whenever they weren't paying taxes were very, very scant for any of these pre-modern governments.That was the only kind of liberality people were granted almost universally.
Some weird practices didn’t directly threaten their control; attempting to eliminate them would have caused administrative chaos.
