HIS385H1 Lecture Notes - Mui Tsai, Basic Law, Triangular Trade
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Vocab: mui tsai- these chinese girls in the 1920s were sold by poor families who couldn"t provide for them. They would sell the girls for compensation to brothels or rich families who would provide shelter and food for them. The girl becomes mui tsai and is owned by the families that bought her, and she is expected to cater to the other children in the family and do chores as well, basically a servant. Europeans saw the domestic servants as slaves, and in. 1917 in london a riot broke out to stop the mui tsai. The london government abolished mui tsai in 1922: the basic law- the basic law serves as hong kongs constitution from 1997 onwards. This constitution replaced the constitution that england had in place from 1842 to 1997, letters patent and royal instructions. The basic law was adopted in 1990 by the nationals peoples congress by the peoples.
