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Mui tsai (Chinese: 妹仔; Cantonese Yale: mūi jái), which means "little sister"[1] in Cantonese, describes young Chinese women who worked as domestic servants in China, or in brothels or affluent Chinese households in traditional Chinese society. The young women were typically from poor families, and sold at a young age, under the condition that they be freed through marriage when older.[2] These arrangements were generally looked upon as charitable and a form of adoption,[3] as the young women would be provided for better as mui tsai than they would if they remained with their family. However, the absence of contracts in these arrangements meant that many mui tsai were resold into prostitution.[4] According to some scholars, many of these girls ended up as either concubines or prostitutes,[3][5] while others write that their status was higher than a concubine's.[6]

In traditional Chinese culture, a family needs a male offspring. Poor parents, who were unable to support many children, sometimes killed newborn infants if they were female. In consideration of the grinding poverty it was an accepted alternative to sell unwanted girls.[7]

The practice was also prevalent before World War II in Hong Kong, Singapore and parts of Southeast Asia.[1]

  1. ^ a b Yung, Unbound Feet, 37.
  2. ^ Yung, Unbound Voices, 129.
  3. ^ a b Orlando Peterson. Slavery and Social Death. Harvard University Press. p. 129.
  4. ^ Yung, Unbound Feet, 38.
  5. ^ Janet Henshall Momsen, ed. (2 September 2003). Gender, Migration and Domestic Service. ISBN 9781134655656. Often, the mui tsai became a concubine of a male member of her employer's household, or was married to a man of her employer's choice and remained as a domestic servant. Others, although officially destined for domestic service, were sold to brothels.
  6. ^ Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers. Brill publishers. 27 May 2015. p. 431. ISBN 9789004280144.
  7. ^ "The Traditional Chinese Family & Lineage". David K. Jordan. Retrieved 12 December 2008.

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