What it’s about: America has technologically averse subcultures within its borders, and China is no different. The Mosuo (who also call themselves the Na) are a population of roughly 40,000 who live ...

Tourists take photos by the water in Lugu Lake in southwest China. The area is home to the Mosuo ethnic group, which has one of the world's relatively rare matrilineal societies. (Anthony Kuhn | NPR) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Zhaba Songding's grandmother, Ani Ciru, 77, sits with Zhaba's son Luosang Nyima, 2, and cat in their courtyard. Tourists take photos by the water in Lugu Lake in southwest China. The area is home to ...