The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
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Read by Nancy Wu.
In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco is a booming city with a dark side, one in which a powerful underground organization-- the criminal tong--buys and sells young Chinese women into prostitution and slavery. These "paper daughters," so called because fake documents gain them entry to America but leave them without legal identity, generally have no recourse. But the Occidental Mission Home for Girls is one bright spot of hope and help
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PUBLISHED
[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Publishing, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: 11 audio discs (13 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781799905066
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Wu, Nancy,
SUBJECTS
Cameron, Donaldina MacKenzie, -- 1869-1968 -- Fiction.
Women social reformers -- San Francisco -- Fiction.
Social work with prostitutes -- San Francisco -- Fiction.
Chinese fiction -- San Francisco.
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.