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There is actually still a place in the world where women control their family structure and inherit their family's property. The Moso culture, isolated from the rest of China on the China Tibetan border, has realized for centuries that romantic love is fleeting and families are most stable if arranged around a matriarchal heritage rather than conventional marriage. Because of their isolation, their way of life has survived, although it is now threatened by the cash economy that has invaded and t
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