The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
Moore, Heather B
In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco is a booming city with a dark side, one in which a powerful underground organisation - the criminal tong - buys and sells young Chinese women into prostitution and slavery. These "paper daughters, " so called because fake documents gain them entry to America but leave them without legal identity, generally have no recourse. But the Occidental Mission Home for Girls is one bright spot of hope and he...
