Anti-Mui Tsai Society
反對蓄婢會 | |
| Formation | 1920s |
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| Founded at | British Hong Kong |
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| Traditional Chinese | 反對蓄婢會 | ||||||||
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The Anti-Mui Tsai Society was an organisation dedicated to abolishing the Mui-tsai system (akin to child slavery) in 1920s colonial Hong Kong.
Background[]
Influence[]
The Anti-Mui Tsai Society marked the increasing social activism of Chinese Christians and labour unions in colonial Hong Kong.[1]
Its opponents included the , which was backed by prominent merchants in the Chinese community, including Lau Chu Pak, Ho Fook and .
In popular culture[]
- Silver Spoon, Sterling Shackles (Chinese: 名媛望族), a 2012 Hong Kong television drama produced by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB)[2]
See also[]
- Mui Tsai
- Anti-Mui Tsai Activism
References[]
- ^ Smith, Carl T. (1981). "The Chinese Church, Labour and Elites and the Mui Tsai question in the 1920s". Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 21: 91–113. ISSN 0085-5774.
- ^ http://casualtvb.blogspot.hk/2012/12/historical-context-mui-tsai-system.html
Further reading[]
- Hugh Lyttleton Haslewood and Mrs. Clara Blanche Lucena Taylor Haslewood (1930). Child slavery in Hong Kong: the mui tsai system. Sheldon Press. https://books.google.com/books?id=VcndjbdTUBYC
- Karen Yuen (December 2004). "Theorizing the Chinese: The MUI TSAI controversy and construction of transnational chineseness in Hong Kong and British Malaya" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. 6 (2): 95–110.
- Carl T. Smith (1995). A sense of history: studies in the social and urban history of Hong Kong. Hong Kong Educational Publishing Co. ISBN 962-290-313-4.
- Episode 8 – Anti-Mui Tsai Movement 2010-01-06 http://programme.rthk.org.hk/rthk/tv/programme.php?p=4639&d=2010-01-06&e=102369&m=episode
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