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The charitable view of the whole question
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is of importance, and should not be forgotten. actual payment of money in the transaction of the deed of gift does not shock the conscience of Chinese,
as the reasons that have led to the sale of a child are always borne in mind: abuses of the whole system, and ill treatment of mui-tsai ere as much abominated
by the better Chinese as by the better Europeans, but the payment of a sum of money for the deed of gift has at least a flavour of charity for ite ultimate reason, and in itself and apart from its abuses, is not viewed as in any way immoral or wrong.
the most The custom covers all the best Chinese Europeanised and the most thoughtful in Hong Kong
as elsewhere: and the system, generally speaking, is viewed as working for the good of the mui-tsai themselves. Their total nurbers would reach a very large figure: much too big for any charitable
Institutions or even for the Government to handle
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and this reason alone would make it difficult- or impossible to interfere suddenly in any radical manner with the solution the natives have found for such a difficult question. It becomes a matter of raising the standard of a whole nation.
The attitude of the Chinese people may be illustrated by the fate of Chan King Wa's attempt to alter the system in Canton shortly after the Revolution of 1911 which ended the Empire. Chan, nominally Chief of Police in Canton, exercised very wide powers throughout the Province, and no one quarrelled with his position (which included the power of life and death, very freely used) till his successf administration
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