Marriage by the shore

Author: Xie Caixia
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This is a story about women and marriage, love and life. At the turn of the century, on one side is the modern and civilized Shangri-La City in Southwest China, an embattled scholarly family; on the other side, by the beautiful and remote Lugu Lake, in the primitive matriarchal Mosuo tribal community, there are two Mosuo families—here live three generations of people with diverse personalities, in the same city and the same tribe at different times, each following their unique life trajectories, in the depths of "sunlight," enacting. The ancient Mosuo custom of walking marriage and modern marriage forms collide through time and space, in the ups and downs of women's fates, bringing forth both sorrow and joy.