Anti-Mui Tsai Society

The Anti-Mui Tsai Society was an organisation founded in 26 March 1922 dedicated to abolishing the Mui-tsai system (akin to child slavery) in colonial Hong Kong.

Anti-Mui Tsai Society
反對蓄婢會
Formation26 March 1922
Founded atBritish Hong Kong
Location
Anti-Mui Tsai Society
Traditional Chinese反對蓄婢會

Influence

The Anti-Mui Tsai Society marked the increasing social activism of Chinese Christians and labour unions in colonial Hong Kong.[1]

Its opponents included the Society for the Protection of the Mui Tsai, which was backed by prominent merchants in the Chinese community, including Lau Chu Pak, Ho Fook and Ho Kum Tong.

See also

References

  1. Smith, Carl T. (1981). "The Chinese Church, Labour and Elites and the Mui Tsai question in the 1920s". Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 21: 91–113. ISSN 0085-5774.
  2. "Casual TVB: Historical Context: Mui Tsai System". December 2012.

Further reading


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