The paper daughters of Chinatown
(Book)
Author
Published
Salt Lake City : Shadow Mountain, [2020].
Format
Book
Status
Port Angeles - Fiction (Adult)
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Biographical fiction.
Cameron, Donaldina MacKenzie, -- 1869-1968 -- Fiction.
Cameron, Donaldina, -- 1869-1968.
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction.
Chinese fiction -- California -- San Francisco.
Historical fiction.
Social work with prostitutes -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction.
Women social reformers -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction.
Cameron, Donaldina MacKenzie, -- 1869-1968 -- Fiction.
Cameron, Donaldina, -- 1869-1968.
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction.
Chinese fiction -- California -- San Francisco.
Historical fiction.
Social work with prostitutes -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction.
Women social reformers -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction.
More Details
Published
Salt Lake City : Shadow Mountain, [2020].
Physical Desc
xi, 372 pages ; 24 cm
Street Date
2009
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-372).
Description
Donaldina Cameron arrived at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in 1895 intending to teach sewing skills to young Chinese women immigrants. She discovers that the job is much more complicated than perfect stitches and even hems. San Francisco has a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization-- the criminal tong-- brings Chinese young women to America to sell them as slaves. With the help of Chinese interpreters and the Chinatown police squad, Cameron becomes a tireless social reformer to stop the abominable slave and prostitution trade. Mei Lien believes she is sailing to the "Gold Mountain" in America to become the wife of a rich Chinese man. Instead she finds herself sold into prostitution: beaten, starved, and forced into an opium addiction. Will the mission home give her hope for a new life? -- adapted from jacket