00:00Months ago, the attacks on Luoyang meant the cooperatives had to evacuate.
00:08One co-op made entirely of girls had never been outside the city before,
00:15and their parents worried what would happen if they left.
00:18In the end, half were allowed to go.
00:23They all cut off their pigtails which they considered essential to their emancipation.
00:31They've adopted sisters and grandmothers among the villagers.
00:36One girl's husband ran away because he said she was uneducated.
00:41After she learned to read, she wrote to him, and he's now promised to return to her.
00:48So our co-ops are both economic and matrimonial agencies.
