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From slave girls to salvation : gender, race, and Victoria's Chinese Rescue Home, 1886-1923  Cover Image Book Book

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

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  • ISBN: 9780774830560 (bound)
  • Physical Description: print
    xii, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2015.

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General Note:
CatMonthString:may.16
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction : breaking ground -- Foundations of stone : Victoria and the Chinese Rescue Home -- Pillars of domesticity and the "Chinese problem" -- Crossing the threshold : interrogating the space and place of Victoria's Chinese Rescue Home -- Outside the walls of the home : men, marriage, and morals in the public arena -- Roofs, rafters, and refuge : the state, race, and child custody -- Conclusion : race, gender, and national imaginings.
Subject: Chinese Rescue Home -- History
Methodist Women's Missionary Society -- History
Chinese Canadian women -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- Case studies
Japanese Canadian women -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- Case studies
Rescue missions (Church work) -- British Columbia -- Victoria
Church work with women -- British Columbia -- Victoria
British Columbia -- Race relations

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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Interurban Library F 1089.7 C5 I34 2015 (Text) 26040003199748 Main Collection Volume hold Available -

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