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CHINESE MEETING ON "MUI TSAI" QUESTION.
A SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT.
SPEECH BY
YEUNG.
INTERESTING
DR.
As able speech was delivered by Dr. Yeung Shiu-chuen at the meeting of the the my trai Chinese community on question, held at the Taiping Theatre, on Baturday, of which the interpreter was unable, in the difficult circumstances of the meeting, to give our reportar version which dors justice to Dr. Yeung, lu fairness to the speaker, therefore, we have pleasure in publishing report based on a translation of Dr. Young's original draft of his speech.
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It will be recalled that the questions briore the meeting were as follows:-
1-1 it a fact that servant-girls are! are! brought up for prostitution? 2-Are servant-girls slaves? 3-Are servant-girls kept for the sexual purpose of their masters, who, when tired of thom, sell them?
4. Has the Chinese Government pas8- ed any law to abolish the practice of keeping servant-girls? 5.-Can the owners of the servant-girls
ill-treat them as they please? Any other matters relating to the question of servant-girls.
Dr. YEUNG SHIU-CHUEN declared, with regard to the first question, that it could na be denied that some anti taai were bought with the ultimate intention of Those being re-sold for prostitution. persong who followed the practice of i chu fa (the direct selling of mai trąż. for prostitution) always called them, in the beginning. **adopted daughters." There were two other methods of Indirect ale for immoral purposes. (1), owners who had bought a mui te and found her mot very obedicut would sell her again and the next owner would sell them to the brothel keepers. Owners would keep the girls far into adolescence; they would bo easily reduced, owing to their ignor ance, by the sons of their owners and then, being unmarriageable, would be sold to the brothel keepers. On these grounds, Dr. Yeung unged, the mui te system should be abolished because it was the greatest feeder of the brothels and the de- gradation of human beings, their kid dapping or sale. would never be checked while the nui taut system existed.
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II.--The second question asked whether a mui tsai was a slave. Dr. YEUNG
"alave pointed out that in China usually meant à "male" slave and bad only an historical significance.
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11. As to the use of mui tsai sexual purposes by their masters. Dr. YEUNG declared that they were frequently taken a concubines.
IV-It was not very important whether lety had been prohibited by the Chinese Goyenment; the people should ask the Government to prohibit slavery in their own interest as human beings. Especially did this apply to Hongkong people hould ask for a measure for the protec- tion of matai, just as they asked for the recent Rents Ordinance Put your own house in order," said the speaker, and do not make what the Chinese Government may do an excuse for in- Petion.
V. As to a master doing anything he liked with a mui tous, Dr. YEUNG remark- Fed that in this Colony the law set limits to the powers of an individual over a A pre- fowl, a dog or a human being. hyjous speaker had pointed to the exist gence of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs And the Po Leung Kuk and said that Might could interfere for the mui tsai's Stection. But who could suppose that Fest ignorant little ones, having no liberty, could consult theso bodies: The hemiwi tšai must have someone to fight their battles. The speaker enumerated the hardships which mus raai frequently auf- fered, as follows:-
(4.) They had no liberty but must give complete obedience to their mastera (b.) Owners could chastise them, whe- thar justly or unjustly.
(c) Any complaint by the mui taoi meant extra-punishment,
(d.) The múi taas was under the orders of steral members of the household aud would be whipped for not carrying out contrary orders.
(e) The mini taai would sometimes be kope up the whole night to fan her mistress while she played the game of ma cheut. If she dozed she would be punished.
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It was surprising, he declared, how often one encountered cases of barth amongst treatment of mui tai even upper and middle class Chinese. **The fate of these children," he declared, "though not so shameful in name that of the prostitute is in reality for worse If the prostitute receives bad treatment the brothel keepers come to her aid, but the sufferings of the mu tai- nless other people living in the same house are compassionate go unheeded. That there is cruelty to mui trai in Hongkong cannot be doubted. We read now and then, in the newspapers, of cases brought before the magistrates, but that is only a small proportion of the cases which occur.
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VI. Dr. LEUNG declared that to call the system of transfer of mui tsai pre- sentation " instead of "selling " ਜਾਣ petely a trick. In the interior of China they were "sold" but here it was called
presenting "bocaue the law of Hong Long would not allow the buying and ling of human beings. The term dopted daughter," similarly, was only
Continued at foot of next column.)
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