摩梭 Mosuo in China: is the Chinese Ethnic Group World´s Last Matriarchal Culture? – China Travel

Throw away your used bullet train tickets and get your personal information leaked.

People have found that the bar code on the train tickets can be decoded by software downloaded from the Internet. Information such as passport or other ID numbers, which are partly concealed on the tickets, will then be revealed.

John Pasden compares and contrasts travelling through China under the "real China" or "China Lite" banners and explains the importance of doing a bit of visitor profiling before friends and family visit.

Women from the Mosuo tribe do not marry, take as many lovers as they wish and have no word for "father" or "husband". But the arrival of tourism and the sex industry is changing their culture.

The church was almost full. From my pew near the back, between two bulky headdresses, I could see a young Chinese woman with a pudding basin haircut and an open hymn book, standing on the stage. Beneath their various ornaments, the headdresses were simple cloth caps dyed blue-black with indigo, but fully embellished they must have weighed a couple of kilograms.