Community decisions center care and shared responsibility. I didn’t realize then how deeply that experience would shape my ...

In this video extra from the documentary The Mosuo Sisters, one of the sisters — Juma — visits her Tibetan boyfriend’s family back home. She finds herself caught between his parents’ wishes (in a ...

Local Mosuo ethnic people paddle dugout canoes, offering visitors an immersive experience at Lugu Lake in Lijiang, Yunnan province. [Photo by Chen Fei/For chinadaily.com.cn] A light winter mist often ...

Local Mosuo ethnic people paddle dugout canoes, offering visitors an immersive experience at Lugu Lake in Lijiang, Yunnan province. [Photo by Chen Fei/For chinadaily.com.cn] The scenic area encourages ...

Even cultures that are vastly different one from another have long touted similar themes and rules around gender. Those in power have used the existence of gendered behavior to enforce a hierarchy ...

Straddling between Southwest China's Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, Lugu Lake is not only a deep freshwater lake, but is also of cultural depth, since it is home to nearly 50,000 Mosuo people. The ...

Across the globe, several societies challenge patriarchal norms by empowering women in unique ways. From the Khasi in India, where inheritance flows through the female line, to the Mosuo in China with ...

For centuries, the Mosuo women sang haunting ballads on Lugu Lake to arouse their lovers' passions. Now they sing to satisfy the tourists, but 42-year-old Zaxi Zouma is not complaining. Immaculate in ...

LIJIANG, Yunnan (China Daily) — In a society where women hold the reins, what it is like to be a man? On the shores of Lugu Lake in Yunnan province, visitors from around the globe have come to explore ...

In the village of Walabi on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in southwestern China, the houses are built in a quadrangle with a flag on the rooftop at one end. This marks the grandmother’s ...