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- The paper daughters of Chinatown [sound recording] / by Moore, Heather B.,author.(CARDINAL)838952; Merrill, Allison Hong,author.; Wu, Nancy,narrator.(CARDINAL)471726;
Read by Nancy Wu.A novel based on the true story of two friends who unite to help rescue immigrant women in the most dangerous corners of San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1890s.- Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Wu, Tien Fu, 1886?-1975; Cameron, Donaldina, 1869-1968; Occidental Mission Home; Human trafficking victims; Women social reformers; Human trafficking; Social reformers; Chinese;
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- The white devil's daughters : the women who fought slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown / by Siler, Julia Flynn,1960-author.(CARDINAL)484511;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-406) and index.Queen's room -- "The cussedest place for women" -- Reveille cry -- "No ordinary person" -- Victorian compromise -- Inked thumbprints -- The celestial quarter -- "To have a little Chinaman" -- Baiting the hook -- Life as a mui tsai -- "A worse slavery than ever uncle tom knew of " -- Dynamite -- Devil's playground -- Chinatown in tears -- Year of the rat -- Instant fame -- Municipal storm -- "Forcing me into the life" -- "I may go to sleep tonight and then find myself in hell!" -- A deathbed promise -- Taking public stands -- Pink curtain -- Courage to fight evil -- The Chinese Mark Twain -- 'Ell of a place! -- The Lord is my shepherd -- "The stress of circumstances" -- Homecomings -- Municipal crib -- Paper son -- Dragon stories -- Tiny -- Missionaries of the home -- Matchmaking -- The "joy zone" -- Fruit tramps -- "Are you wearing a mask and taking precautions?" -- Quiet defiance -- Sargy -- Bessie -- Heavens for courage -- The thwack of bouncing balls -- Little general -- Shangri-la -- Broken blossoms -- Epilogue: "Blessed Tien.""A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's Chinatown served as a gateway to freedom for thousands of enslaved and vulnerable young Chinese women and girls. Known as the Occidental Mission Home, it survived earthquakes, fire, bubonic plague, and violence directed against its occupants and supporters--a courageous group of female abolitionists who fought the slave trade in Chinese women. With compassion and an investigative historian's sharp eyes, Siler tells the story of both the abolitionists, who challenged the corrosive, anti-Chinese prejudices of the time, and the young women who dared to flee their fate. She relates how the women who ran the house defied contemporary convention, even occasionally broke the law, by physically rescuing children from the brothels where they worked, or snatching them off the ships smuggling them in, and helped bring the exploiters to justice. She has also uncovered the stories of many of the girls and young women who came to the Mission and the lives they later led,sometimes becoming part of the home's staff themselves. A remarkable story of an overlooked part of our history, told with sympathy and vigor"--- Subjects: Occidental Mission Home; Human trafficking; Social work with prostitutes; Chinese; Women abolitionists;
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- The paper daughters of Chinatown : adapted for young readers from the best-selling novel / by Moore, Heather B.,author.(CARDINAL)838952; Merrill, Allison Hong,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-222).When Tien Fu Wu, a young Chinese girl, is sold into slavery by her gambler father, she is rescued by the women of the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco, where she befriends missionary Dolly Cameron.Grades 4-6.Ages 10 and up.- Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Cameron, Donaldina, 1869-1968; Wu, Tien Fu, 1886?-1975; Occidental Mission Home; Chinese; Human trafficking victims; Human trafficking; Social reformers; Women social reformers;
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- The paper daughters of Chinatown / by Moore, Heather B.,author.(CARDINAL)838952;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-372)."A fictionalized account of the early years of Donaldina Cameron's work with the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco, California, which worked to rescue Chinese girls and women from slavery conditions in the late 1800s through the early 1900s."--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Cameron, Donaldina, 1869-1968; Women social reformers; Social work with prostitutes; Human trafficking victims; Chinese;
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- The paper daughters of Chinatown [sound recording] by Moore, Heather B.,author.(CARDINAL)838952; Wu, Nancy,narrator.(CARDINAL)471726;
Read by Nancy Wu.In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco is a booming city with a dark side, one in which a powerful underground organization-- 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 help.- Subjects: Audio books on compact discs.; Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Cameron, Donaldina MacKenzie, 1869-1968; Chinese; Social work with prostitutes; Women social reformers;
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- Imperial dreams : tracking the imperial woodpecker through the wild Sierra Madre / by Gallagher, Tim.(CARDINAL)273931;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-259) and index.Down Mexico way -- Treasures and tragedies of the Sierra Madre. In Pancho Villa's land ; High sierra ; A natural history of the imperial woodpecker ; Out of Norway ; There is blood in this soil ; Twilight of the Sierra Madre Apaches ; The song of Aldo Leopold -- The final expeditions. From ivory-bills to imperials ; The last explorers ; No turning back ; That was long ago, and now they are gone ; You will get there at best -- Vaya con Dios, Pitoreal."Explorer and naturalist Tim Gallagher is obsessed with rare birds. A decade ago, Gallagher was one of the rediscoverers of the legendary ivory-billed woodpecker, which most scientists believed had been extinct for more than half a century-- an event that caused an international stir. Now, in Imperial Dreams, Gallagher once again hits the trail, journeying deep into Mexico's savagely beautiful Sierra Madre Occidental, home to rich wildlife, as well as to Mexican drug cartels, in a perilous quest to locate the most elusive bird in the world- -the imperial woodpecker, a giant among its clan. The imperial woodpecker's trumpetlike calls and distinctive hammering on massive pines once echoed through the high forests. Two feet tall, with deep black plumage, a brilliant snow-white shield on its back, and a crimson crest, the imperial woodpecker had largely disappeared fifty years ago, though reports persist of the bird still flying through remote mountain stands. In an attempt to find and protect the imperial woodpecker in its last habitat, Gallagher is guided by a map of sightings of this natural treasure of the Sierra Madre, bestowed on him by a friend on his deathbed. Charged with continuing the quest of a line of distinguished naturalists, including the great Aldo Leopold, Gallagher treks through this mysterious, historically untamed and untamable territory. Here, where an ancient petroglyph of the imperial can still be found, Geronimo led Apaches in their last stand, William Randolph Hearst held a storied million-acre ranch, and Pancho Villa once roamed, today ruthless drug lords terrorize residents and steal and strip the land. Gallagher's passionate quest takes a harrowing turn as he encounters armed drug traffickers, burning houses, and fleeing villagers. His mission becomes a life-and-death drama that will keep armchair adventurers enthralled as he chases truth in the most dangerous of habitats"--- Subjects: Gallagher, Tim; Gallagher, Tim; Imperial woodpecker.; Natural history;
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