Mosuo men have responsibility for their sisters' children. In the old days, when a Mosuo girl turned 13, her family provided her with a windowed room on the second floor of the house, called the ...

Women call the shots among the Mosuo people of southwest China. However, things are changing. Tourism has helped them escape poverty but also has... The Place In China Where The Women Lead Tourists ...

Mosuo, located in South-West China, is the only Matrilineal society in China. The first record of Mosuo culture dates back more than two thousand years. Today, this tribe still retains their unique ...

LUGU LAKE, China — A young man clad in a white shirt, black pants and red belt suddenly scrambled up the side of a log house and slid feet first into a second-story latticed window. “This is how Mosuo ...

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 Mosuo people living by Lugu Lake celebrated the Mountain Worship Festival (also known as zhuanshanjie) in Southwest China's Yunnan province, on Sept 15. Since ancient times, they have learned to ...

The Land Where Women Rule: Inside China's Last Matriarchy 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 ...

Tourists are drawn to the shores of Lugu Lake in southwest China by tales of an exotic "Kingdom of Daughters," where the women of the Mosuo ethnic group head one of the world's relatively rare ...