Anti-Mui Tsai Society
The Anti-Mui Tsai Society was an organisation founded in 26 March 1922 dedicated to abolishing the Mui-tsai system (akin to child slavery) in colonial Hong Kong.
反對蓄婢會 | |
| Formation | 26 March 1922 |
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| Founded at | British Hong Kong |
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| Traditional Chinese | 反對蓄婢會 | ||||||||
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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 Society for the Protection of the Mui Tsai, which was backed by prominent merchants in the Chinese community, including Lau Chu Pak, Ho Fook and Ho Kum Tong.
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
- Society for the Protection of the Mui Tsai
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.
- "Casual TVB: Historical Context: Mui Tsai System". December 2012.
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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 August 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- 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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