• Mui tsai (Chinese: 妹仔; Cantonese Yale: mūi jái), which means "little sister" in Cantonese, describes young Chinese women who worked as domestic servants...
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  • there were a number of attempts to abolish the mui tsai system. Mui tsai (Chinese: 妹仔; Cantonese Yale: mūi jái; lit. 'little sister') describes Chinese...
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  • The Anti-Mui Tsai Society was an organisation founded on 8 August 1921 dedicated to abolishing the Mui-tsai system (akin to child slavery) in colonial...
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  • Anita Mui Yim-fong (Chinese: 梅艷芳; 10 October 1963 – 30 December 2003) was a Hong Kong singer and actress who made major contributions to the Cantopop...
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    slavery in Hong Kong: the mui tsai system. Sheldon Press. Yuen, Karen (December 2004). "Theorizing the Chinese: The MUI TSAI controversy and construction...
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  • chairwoman of Chinese YWCA of Hong Kong and the leader of the 1920s anti-mui tsai movement. Born in 1872 in into a Christian family in Hong Kong with the...
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    religion, and had thereupon been declared to be slaves'. Chinese slave girls (mui tsai or anak beli), where sold for use as slave concubines in the harems of...
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    Chu Pak established the Society for the Protection of the Mui Tsai in defense of the mui-tsai system, a form of child slavery with the support of Chinese...
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    the guise of domestic servants. These women were known as Mui Tsai. The lives of Mui Tsai were recorded by American feminist Agnes Smedley in her book...
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    adoption, as well as to classify the mui tsai trade as slavery, which was done in Straits Settlements in 1933. The mui tsai trade of Chinese children in the...
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    conservative stance, in line with his Chinese elite advisors, on the issue of mui-tsai, a form of child slavery then prevalent in the colony. He was criticized...
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  • been sung by various singers in later years, such as Sally Yeh, Anita Mui, Tsai Chin and Frances Yip. "顧嘉煇姐弟畫展望籌百萬 (Joseph Koo and his siblings exhibit...
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    the UN in 1949, and campaigned against contemporary slavery such as the mui tsai. After three years, Greenidge's campaign met success in 1949, when the...
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    Convention were expected to actively oppose. The issues discussed were the Mui tsai issue, debt bondage and serfdom; the status of women and discriminatory...
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  • Francisco, California. After being rescued in childhood from her role as a mui tsai (a child servant), she worked for decades to free Chinese immigrant women...
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    Sumatra, where they were used as concubines (sex slaves); from Aceh, the Mui Tsai girls could be exported further for sale to Arabia. Under this form of...
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    Hadhramaut in Yemen in the 1930s described the existence of Chinese girls (Mui tsai) trafficked from Singapore for enslavement as concubines, and the King...
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    whipped for being too ill to work.[citation needed]  Hong Kong Slavery of Mui tsai abolished. 1924 Iraq Slavery abolished. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Slavery abolished...
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    which was provided with slaves via foremost the Red Sea slave trade. The Mui tsai system in China attracted considerable attention in this time period. Thirty-five...
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    Defence Corps, and more Hong Kong Chinese followed. Lo was ambivalent on the mui-tsai system, a form of child slavery then prevalent in colonial Hong Kong. Initially...
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    religion, and had thereupon been declared to be slaves'. Chinese slave girls (mui tsai or anak beli), where sold for use as slave concubines in the harems of...
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    Hadhramaut in Yemen in the 1930s described the existence of Chinese girls (Mui tsai) trafficked from Singapore for enslavement as concubines, and the King...
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    trafficking of women and children were widespread in Hong Kong, under the mui tsai system. On 8 November 1878, a group of local Chinese (Lo Lai-ping, Shi...
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    China to the Temporary Slavery Commission (TSC) of 1924-1926 described the Mui Tsai trade in girls, which was a matter given international attention at this...
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    Hadhramaut in Yemen in the 1930s described the existence of Chinese girls (Mui tsai) trafficked from Singapore for enslavement as concubines,; the King and...
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    established the Society for the Protection of the Mui Tsai, an initiative aimed at curbing the demise of the mui-tsai system, a form of child slavery in which...
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    Street. The new building was built using salvaged clinker bricks. Girls and mui tsai would hide in the basement from their captures. With the falling numbers...
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    airport in 1998).[citation needed] He also notably ended the practice of Mui Tsai, the traditional Chinese "female maid servitude" system which often resulted...
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  • the sun, another waterspout appears over the Canton sea. Cheung Po Tsai helps Tai-mui open the time portal so she can return to 21st century Hong Kong....
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