Strong Women in an Online Matriarchal World

Introduction What would life under female rule be like? What would families be like when every woman could have multiple male partners? What would a world be like where women are superior to men in all aspects? These are some questions raised by matriarchal fiction (nüzun, 女尊), a genre that first emerged in China on the literary website Jinjiang (晋江) Literature City (hereafter referred to as Jinjiang). Matriarchal novels are generally characterized by strong female protagonists and storyworld...