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The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2023) reading and writing Japanese todayIn 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 in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of women. All decisions and rights related to money, property, land and the children born to them rest with the Mosuo women, who live completely