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Women and Chinese patriarchy, submission, servitude, and escape, edited by Maria Jaschok and Suzanne Miers

Label
Women and Chinese patriarchy, submission, servitude, and escape, edited by Maria Jaschok and Suzanne Miers
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-285) and index
Illustrations
maps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Women and Chinese patriarchy
Nature of contents
abstracts summaries
Responsibility statement
edited by Maria Jaschok and Suzanne Miers
Sub title
submission, servitude, and escape
Table Of Contents
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 histor
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