"Mui Tsai (妹仔) and Transpacific Child Labour Trafficking" by Aydin Quach

Mui Tsai (妹仔) and Transpacific Child Labour Trafficking by Aydin Quach, Ph.D. Student, the University of Southern California

This video by doctoral student Aydin Quach offers an overview of the mui tsai system and how young girls from southern China were moved as part of indentured labour across the transpacific with usage of sources found in The Chinese Times, a Vancouver-based publication that ran from 1914-1992. The illustration of mui tsai in Vancouver and Canada then is used as an examination of age and generation as a category of analysis to understand the condition of early Chinese women in North America, the development of child protection laws, and the socio-cultural significance of age and generation.
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Image Courtesy of:
The Chinese Times, Simon Fraser University Library (As of August 2024, the Chinese Times will be moving to a new home as part of the Canadiana collection.)
Hong Kong e-Legislature
National Library Singapore
NewspaperSG
Prelinger Archives

This lecture is copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA)​​
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This lecture is part of open educational resource "Sex and Migration in the Transpacific Underground": https://transpacificunderground.arts....