Nanyang, China News

Half a century ago, Huang Duanyun coiled her hair as a pledge of celibacy, becoming part of an ancient Chinese sisterhood called the 'zishunu'. The 90-year-old, one of the group's last living members, recalls the heady days when women put fate in their own hands Once numbering in the tens of thousands between the late Qing dynasty and the 1940s, a ... (more)

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Southeast Asia is referred to in Sanskrit as Suvarnabhumi, as Nanyang in Chinese, as Serambi Mekah - verandah of Mecca - in Malay, and as Zirbadat - "lands below the winds" - by the Arabs and Persians.