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Word Search: Visit the Mosuo people, where women run everything

Gulf News 27 Feb 2022
The Mosuo people, an ethnic group that lives in the Yunnan and Sichuan regions of China, are a completely matriarchal society. Having long been isolated from other parts of the country, and its issues, the Mosuo provide ... The Mosuo also practice something called a “walking marriage”.
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The matrilineal Chinese culture that carries around cured pork for a decades

Boing Boing 28 Jan 2021
I recently fell down a weird research wormhole about the Mosuo ...
photo: Creative Commons / Gisling
File - A Mosue girl weaver in the old town Lijiang, China.
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The kingdom of women: the Tibetan tribe where a man is never the boss

The Guardian 01 Apr 2017
An ancient tribal community of Tibetan Buddhists called the Mosuo, they live in a surprisingly modern way ... After reading about the Mosuo, she decided to take a trip to their picturesque community – a series of villages dotted around a mountain and Lugu Lake – as many tourists do ... “Mosuo men are feminists by any standards,” says Waihong.
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The Kingdom of Women: among China’s matriarchal Mosuo

South China Morning Post 15 Mar 2017
The Kingdom of Women by Choo Waihong I.B. TaurisLost tribes”, cut off from the babbling, interconnected world, continue to ignite the imagi­nation. Like species on isolated islands that take distinct paths of evolution, lost tribes suggest alternative modes of development ... .
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The walking marriage of Mosuo ethnic group

China Daily 13 Jun 2016
The walking marriage, in which a man and a woman establish relations after the man's nocturnal visits to the woman's boudoir, has been less prevalent in the Mosuo ethnic group generally residing in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces ... However, the demand of fidelity doesn't work in the Mosuo minority who can easily change their partners.
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Inside China's Last Matriarchy

The Daily Telegraph 23 Feb 2016
Lugu Lake in the foothills of the Himalayas is home to China's 40,000-people-strong Mosuo tribe, one of the world's last matriarchies. Living more or less isolated for centuries, the Mosuo tribe have developed their own unique family structure in which there is no traditional ...
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Is China's Mosuo tribe the world's last matriarchy?

The Guardian 19 Dec 2010
Women from the Mosuo tribe do not marry, take as many lovers as they wish and have no word for "father" or "husband" ... Mosuo women row across Lugu Lake in a traditional canoe made of driftwood ... Known as the "Kingdom of Women" throughout China, 40,000 Mosuo people live in a series of villages around the lake.
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Change of life for Mosuo women

BBC News 16 Jun 2008
In a society known as 'the kingdom of women', ...
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ABCNEWS.com : In China, Mosuo Women Rule

ABC News 19 May 2002
• • • MORE ON THIS STORY RELATED STORIES • •   The Mosuo people perform their courtship dance, when women traditionally choose a male companion for the night or a year or a lifetime — and the men have no say in the matter ... However, times are changing for the Mosuo people.
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