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The paper daughters of Chinatown / Heather B. Moore.
"A fictionalized account of the early years of Donaldina Cameron's work with the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco, California, which worked to rescue Chinese girls and women from slavery conditions in the late 1800s through the early 1900s"-- Provided by publisher.
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
Record details
- ISBN: 9781629727820
- ISBN: 1629727822
- Physical Description: xi, 372 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Salt Lake City : Shadow Mountain, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-372). |
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| Genre: | Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Clearfield.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph & Elizabeth Shaw Public Library | FIC MOORE (Text) | 39636100421326 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
