Choo Waihong

The Kingdom of Women (eBook, ePUB)

Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of women. All decisions and rights related to money, property, land and the children born to them rest with the Mosuo women, who live completely independently of husbands, fathers and brothers, with the grandmother as the head of each family. A unique practice is also enshrined in Mosuo tradition - that of 'walking marriage', where women choose their own lovers from men within the tribe but are beholden to none.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786721709
• Artikelnr.: 55354649

Autorenporträt

Choo Waihong was a corporate lawyer with top law firms in Singapore and California before she took early retirement in 2006 and began writing travel pieces for publications such as China Daily. She lived for six years with the Mosuo tribe and now spends half the year with them in Yunnan, China.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates Acknowledgements Preface Prelude Map: Kingdom of Women 1.
Arriving in the Kingdom of Women 2. Building a Mosuo Home 3. Going Native
4. Getting to Know the Mosuos 5. Becoming the Godmother 6. Hunting and
Eating in Bygone Times 7. How the Mosuo Women Rock 8. The Men Rock Too 9. A
Marriage That Is Not a Marriage 10. The Matrilineal Ties That Bind 11. The
Birth-Death Room 12. On the Knife-Edge of Extinction Glossary