What is Beauty and Sadness by Cathy Song about?

Answer 1

It's study of femininity and vulnerability as a reciprocal relathionship. It's the women's vulnerability that makes them so beautiful their delicate nature makes us appreciate them but they are inherently sad. They realise that their beauty is the only aspect that matters to the outside world and inside they are left to be nothing, haunted by the fear that one day their beauty, and thus their being, will be lost. They are fuly defined by what they seem to be, not what they are. They are women for men, geishas, courtesans, described as incredibly virgin when clearly they are not.