Women and Chinese Patriarchy
Submission, Servitude and Escape
(婦女與中國父權主義:屈從、奴役與逃避)
ISBN : 978-962-209-361-4
August 1994
320 pages
For sale in the Greater China area (Hong Kong, the Mainland, Macao, Taiwan), Japan, Singapore, and North and South Korea only
Paperback
- HK$165.00
Around 1930, an eight-year-old Janet Lim was sold in China by her destitute parents and then imported into Singapore as a mui tsai, an unpaid domestic servant. Her experiences of servitude, her subsequent escape, and the impact of those years on the rest