Progress Review: Hui’an Women: The Marriage and Sexuality at the Edge of Han Chinese - Yuan Jing

Positioned as "newly-arrived" members at the edge of the Han Chinese, Hui'an women are regarded as an anomaly, with their extended natal residence marriages, distinctive adornment styles, powerful and demanding same-sex networks, unusual gender labour patterns, peculiar beliefs and religions, and high frequency of mass suicides. This project explores how their marriage and sexuality has been intertwined with other events in history and current society, along with the state power and traditional forces in rural China, interacting with other groups to form the Huan women today, arguing that marriage and sexuality is one of the key elements that lead the history in China's formation of current society.