Two women row a canoe made of driftwood across a lake, their eyes fixed on a destination in the distance. The woman in the foreground bites her bottom lip with determination. There's a steeliness in ...

The Mosuo villages in the Chinese Himalayas are trying to hold on to their ancient, complex social structures that value female power and decision-making. Life around Lugu Lake—high up in the ...

LUGU LAKE, China—We are 9,000 feet above sea level, and John Wayne is taunting me. “Come on, Grandmother, you can make it. I’ll give you a hand.” Joe thrusts out his arm, and we scrabble down another ...

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 ...

Every year the Rotary Club of Beijing (RCB) sends a check to the Lugu Lake area, located on the border of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, so that around 30 Mosuo students are able to continue their ...

Cogs in the very big wheel of China's increasingly globalized economy, the titular ethnic sisters illustrate how the international vagaries of financial fortune play havoc with lives whose paths would ...

As far as the West is concerned, the Mosuo can represent an intoxicating fantasy. Spread across less than a hundred villages along the mountainous China-Tibet border in Yunnan province, the Mosuo are ...

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 ...

In southwestern China, women have led families for centuries. Here, at the foot of the Himalayas, Lizajui is one of the last villages where matriarchal Mosuo traditions still rule. A father’s role is ...

Cogs in the very big wheel of China's increasingly globalized economy, the titular ethnic sisters illustrate how the international vagaries of financial fortune play havoc with lives whose paths would ...