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Let’s Talk: Growing up as a girl in the Kingdom of Women
August 15th, 2017 | Events, Gender-based Violence, News
Hear author Choo Wai Hong share about her adventures and life in the matriarchal Mosuo community.
Can you imagine a world where power lies in the hands of the women? Where families follow maternal bloodlines, and there is no need for fatherhood? This lies hidden in the remote mountains of China. 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. As one of the last matrilineal and matriarchal societies on earth, their way of life teeters on the knife-edge of extinction.
Wai Hong shares about her incredible six years in the Mosuo community, in a talk about her newly-published book, The Kingdom of Women – Life, Love and Death in China’s Hidden Mountains.
Date: 23 August 2017
Time: 7pm
Venue: AWARE Centre, 5 Dover Crescent #01-22