Mui Tsai (Indian child marriage)
Consists of:
- typescript reports / articles on alleged child slavery in Hong Kong
- correspondence concerning the abolition of the Mui Tsai system in Hong Kong (a problem officially being dealt with by the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society). Correspondents : Lieutenant Commander HL and Mrs CBL Haslewood, Anti-Mui Tsai Society, Mrs Horton (National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship), National Council of Women, John H Harris (The Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society), Government House Hong Kong, League of Nations Unions
- photographs of Mui Tsai with letter dated 8 Oct 1929 and 7 Mar 1930
Publications :
- 'Notes on child slavery in Hong Kong' from 'The Shield' Apr 1921
- 'Manifesto of Anti-Muitsai Society'
- 'An Ordinance to regulate certain forms of female domestic service', 1923
- 'Girl slavery in Hong Kong' from 'Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines' Friend', Apr 1923 (and other pages from the same journal for subsequent years)
- leaflet 'Cry of the Mui Tsai in Hong Kong'
- 'Hong Kong. Papers relative to the Mui-Tsai question' Cmd 3424, London : HMSO, 1929
- 'Report by the Governor of Hong Kong on the Mui-Tsai question', London : HMSO, 1930
- 'Child slavery in Hong Kong. Comments on the Governor's report on the Mui Tsai question contained in Cmd 3735 of Dec 1930' by HL Haslewood and CBL Haslewood, c 1931
- 'Slavery in the world today', 'Slave Market News' Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1933
- Mui Tsai in Hong Kong. Report of the Committee appointed by His Excellency the Governor Sir William Peel (1935)
- pages from Hansard (and typed extracts from Hansard)
For the following publication consult The Women's Library printed collections catalogue:
- 'The regulation of prostitution in Hong Kong', Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, 1923 (ref 305.420941 JOS)
Press cuttings concerning Mui Tsai