TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jaschok,Maria
AU  - Miers,Suzanne
TI  - Women and Chinese patriarchy: submission, servitude, and escape 
SN  - 1856491250 (hbk.)
AV  - HQ1768 .W66 1994
U1  - 305.42/0951 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Hong Kong, London, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.
PB  - Hong Kong University Press, Zed Books
KW  - Women
KW  - China
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Child marriage
KW  - Chinezen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - Patriarchaat (sociologie)
KW  - Patriarchat
KW  - swd
KW  - Frau
KW  - Diskriminierung
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - Patriarcat (sociologie)
KW  - Chine
KW  - ram
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Singapour
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Droits
KW  - Hong Kong
KW  - Femmes esclaves
KW  - Enfants
KW  - Mariage
KW  - Chinoises
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Protection, assistance, etc
KW  - Asie orientale
KW  - History
N1  - Cover title: Women & Chinese patriarchy; Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-285) and index; Women in the Chinese patriarchal system : submission, servitude, escape and collusion / Maria Jaschok and Suzanne Miers -- Girls' houses and working women : expressive culture in the Pearl River delta, 1900-41 / Rubie S. Watson -- San po tsai (little daughters-in-law) and child betrothals in the new territories of Hong Kong from the 1890s to the 1960s / James Hayes -- Chinese prostitution in Singapore : recruitment and brothel organisation / James Francis Warren -- Mui tsai through the eyes of the victim : Janet Lim's story of bondage and escape / Suzanne Miers -- Implementing government policy for the protection of women and girls in Singapore 1948-66 : recollections of a social worker / Koh Choo Chin -- Chinese patriarchy and the protection of women in 19th-century Hong Kong / Elizabeth Sinn -- Chinese 'slave' girls in Yunnan-Fu : saving (Chinese) womanhood and (western) souls, 1930-1991 / Maria Jaschok -- Social Christianity, American feminism and Chinese prostitutes : the history of the Presbyterian Mission Home, San Francisco, 1874-1935 / Sarah Refo Mason -- Protected women in 19th-century Hong Kong / Carl T. Smith -- Female migrants in Singapore : towards a strategy of pragmatism and coping / Claire Chiang -- Traditionalism, continuity and change / Maria Jaschok and Suzanne Miers
N2  - Around 1930, an eight-year-old Janet Lim was sold in China by her destitute parents and then imported into Singapore as a mui tsai, an unpaid domestic servant. Her experiences of servitude, her subsequent escape, and the impact of those years on the rest of her life are vividly recalled in an interview for this book. Janet Lim's story is not uncommon. Through the centuries, Chinese women and girls have been bought and sold for marriage, concubinage, domestic service and prostitution in China and among Chinese communities overseas. Although the practice was apparently stamped out after World War II, it has reappeared on a large scale since the mid-1970s; This collection reveals many forms of servitude that Chinese women have endured, and the avenues of escape open to some of them. The authors are anthropologists, historians and sociologists, but the book is enriched also by contributions from the participants - a social worker, a mui tsai, and a colonial civil servant. The chapters are based on original documentary or oral research and personal experience, and, throughout the book, the voices of the women, their owners and their missionary rescuers can be clearly heard
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