Women in China – History – 1500 to the present
Empress Xiaozhuang In the 1600s AD, most women in China still suffered from oppression, as they had in antiquity and the Middle Ages. They couldn't own land, and they had [...]
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Central Asian People – Women, clans, families, slavery
Khitan woman, ca. 1000 AD (Musee Guimet, Paris) From prehistory right through the Middle Ages, most Central Asian people's most important attachments were to their family and their clan or [...]
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Central Asian Women
Catherine the Great Women had always been more equal to men in Central Asia than in China, West Asia, India or Europe, and women continued to do better in Central [...]
