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The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains

Autor Choo WaiHong
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 feb 2020
In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women'.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.Choo WaiHong, a corporate lawyer, yearned for escape and ended up living in Mosuo for six years - the only non-Mosuo to have ever done so. She tells the story of the remarkable story of her time in the remote mountains of China and gives a vibrant, compelling glimpse into a way of life that teeters on the knife-edge of extinction.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780755600953
ISBN-10: 0755600959
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 16 colour in 16 pp plate
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Tauris Parke
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

List of PlatesAcknowledgementsPrefacePreludeMap: Kingdom of Women1. Arriving in the Kingdom of Women2. Building a Mosuo Home3. Going Native4. Getting to Know the Mosuos5. Becoming the Godmother6. Hunting and Eating in Bygone Times7. How the Mosuo Women Rock8. The Men Rock Too9. A Marriage That Is Not a Marriage10. The Matrilineal Ties That Bind11. The Birth-Death Room12. On the Knife-Edge of ExtinctionGlossary

Recenzii

A fascinating portrait of one of the world's last matriarchal societies, a land without fathers or husbands, without marriage or divorce, written by an international corporate lawyer who ditched her hectic life to embrace this Shangri-La inside deepest China.
A crisp account by a high-powered Singaporean lawyer of how she renounced her former life of fifteen-hour working days in a male-dominated corporate world to find her feminist soul in the last matriarchal ethnic group remaining in China. Full of insights and touching descriptions, this is one of the most accessible and concrete descriptions of the Mosuo, a group more analysed than understood, putting the humanity of this tribe at the forefront of their identity.
A most engaging account of life among the matrilineal and matriarchal Mosuo tribe in China's Yunnan province, but also a lament to a way of life now threatened by modernity and tourism. Full of detail and telling insights into gender roles, it will appeal to armchair travellers as well as to anthropologists and sociologists.
A refreshing and authentic portrait of a hidden society in patriarchal China. A must read for anyone studying women and alternative societies.