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Romance in East/Southeast Asia (and/or) East/Southeast Asian Heroes and Heroines
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“
We see the Tsaatan encampment of tepees in the far distance, sitting in a vast treeless plain surrounded by rolling hills and backdropped by high snow-capped mountains. We pause for a while to take in this spectacle. It took my breath away, and for a moment, everything was gone except the here and now.
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In Mongolian culture, Khutulun is remembered by the sport in which she so excelled. These days when Mongolian men wrestle, they wear a sort of long-sleeved vest that is open in the front to prove tp their opponents they don't have breasts. It's a tribute to the woman wrestler who was never defeated.
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― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
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