Golden Orchid Societies

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🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Today's episode is on Golden Orchid Societies in southern China. Listen to learn about how mulberries led to female independence, marriage resistance in the Pearl River Delta, and how to propose to your girlfriend using peanut candy. Image: Liang Jieyun, 85, and Huang Li-e, 90, two of the last surviving Golden Orchid sisters

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.
0:04.9	I'm Irene.
0:05.6	I'm Alice.
0:06.4	I'm Elo.
0:07.1	And today we're going to be talking about Golden Orchid Societies.
0:14.3	Golden Orchid Societies were groups of women largely in 19th and early 20th century Guangdong,
0:25.0	which is in South China, who lived together and supported each other financially and socially.
0:30.0	You might have noticed that when we announced what we would be doing this episode
0:33.6	and when I put it up in the poll we had on Patreon for choosing the topic, I was referring
0:38.5	to the Golden Orchid Society. Since then, when I did my research, it turns out there is no
0:44.8	one Golden Orchid Society. It was not a single organization. There was not like formal membership.
0:50.4	There was not anything like that, really. So I feel like calling it the Golden Orchid Society gives a misleading impression of what
0:58.5	we're actually going to be talking about.
1:00.4	So every English language source have ever casually come across on the internet about
1:04.0	this has been wrong.
1:04.9	Yeah, basically.
1:05.7	Cool.
1:06.3	Shocking.
1:09.4	Yes.
1:10.6	A good start.
1:11.9	So before we get into more detail about that, we have a few content warnings for today.
1:17.3	There are not many.
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