Sold for Silver -Janet Lim

[helen]

The true story of China-born Janet Lim, who was sold into slavery as a young girl in 1930s Singapore. When Singapore falls to the Japanese in 1942, she escapes by ship, but when it'ss bombed and sinks, Janet floats at sea for days close to death. Rescued by fishermen then captured by the Japanese, she narrowly escapes sexual-imprisonment as a comfort woman and is tortured. An inspirational autobiography of a true heroine.

parts of the book is on google books

Page 36 describes what a mui tsai is - "little younger sister". I remember my mother in law had one - who helped her and combed her hair.

[Henry]

Helen,

Another well known story on a Chinese woman being sold is about Polly Bemis, a Chinese woman sold in the American West - there was a film "Thousand Pieces of Gold" based upon a book by Ruthanne Lum McCune, who also wrote an account of a true story, "Sole Survivor", about a Chinese seaman that managed to survive for 133 days on the open sea.


Henry