From slave girls to salvation : gender, race, and Victoria's Chinese Rescue Home, 1886-1923 / Shelly Ikebuchi.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ikebuchi, Shelly, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Chinese Rescue Home--History.
• Methodist Women's Missionary Society--History.
• Rescue missions (Church work)--British Columbia--Victoria.
• Church work with women--British Columbia--Victoria.
• Race relations.
• Church work with women.
• Rescue missions (Church work).
• British Columbia--Race relations.
• British Columbia.
• British Columbia--Victoria.

Genre:

• Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2015]

Summary:

For decades, the Chinese Rescue Home was a fixture of the landscape of Victoria, BC. Originally a refuge for Chinese prostitutes and slave girls rescued from captivity, it became a residence and school where the Methodist Woman's Missionary Society attempted to reform Chinese and Japanese girls and women. They did this, in part, by teaching them domestic skills meant to ease their integration into Western society. This book offers the first in-depth history and analysis of this iconic institution from 1886 to 1923 and expands our understanding of the complex interplay between gender, race, and class in BC during this time. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 1 Foundations of Stone: Victoria and the Chinese Rescue Home 30
• 2 Pillars of Domesticity and file "Chinese Problem" 56
• 3 Crossing the Threshold: Interrogating the Space and Place of Victoria's Chinese Rescue Home 82
• 4 Outside the Walls of the Home: Men, Marriage, and Morals in the Public Arena 115
• 5 Roofs, Rafters, and Refuge: The State, Race, and Child Custody 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Ikebuchi, Shelly, 1962-, author. From slave girls to salvation.

ISBN:

• 9780774830560
• 0774830565
• 9780774830584
• 0774830581

OCLC:

907657465