The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane Literary Fiction Women's training in self defense

Women's training in self defense was both a reflection of and a response to the broader cultural issues of the time

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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane Literary Fiction Women's training in self defenseIn their remote mountain village, Li yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generations until a stranger appears at the village gate in a jeep, the first automobile any of the villagers has ever seen. The stranger's arrival marks the first entrance of the modern world in the lives of the Akha people. Slowly, Li yan, one of the few