Construction of a lost childhood : the 'rehabilitation' of Mui Tsai in the Straits Settlement by the colonial government and the Po Leung Kuk committee

• Main Author: Chan, Evelyn Ju Ying
• Other Authors: Jessica Bridgette Hinchy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::History
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147293
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Debates between colonial administrators and anti-slavery British reformers during the interwar years about the nature of slavery within the mui tsai system in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Malaya and the Straits Settlements feature strongly in academic work. However, few scholarly articles cons...