Outreach
Video Lending Library
China
- Program Title: THE Ladies of the Lake
- EASC Code: CL-11
- Series Title:
- Region/Country: China
- Language: English, Mandarin
- Subtitles: English
- Subject: Sociology
- Program Type: Documentary
- Media Type: VHS
- Director: Filmakers Library
- Producer: Journeyman Pictures
- Release Date:
- Running Time: 20 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: This stunning film takes us to a rare matriarchal community in southwest China. The ancient Mosuo culture has survived both the time of the concubines and the cultural revolution, although it is now being threatened with extinction by Beijing family planning policies and by absorbtion into the mainstream of the Chinese majority.
- Data Entry Date: 5/2/2004
