![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, she is recruited to go on dangerous rescue missions, raiding dangerous opium dens and tongs (Chinese criminal organization) to bring girls to safety. Because of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prohibiting additional Chinese immigrants from coming to America, many Chinese girls came here illegally as paper daughters, on the pretense that they already had relatives in America.ĭolly quickly becomes a mother figure to most of the young girls at the home. The home is a safe haven for Chinese women who had been sold into slavery and prostitution. ![]() Based on true events, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown is a fascinating novel, bringing to light the heroic efforts of the real-life savior, Donaldina Cameron, who devoted her life to rescuing young Chinese girls from sex trafficking in the early 1900s.ĭonaldina (Dolly) Cameron is in her mid-20s when she accepts a position as a teacher at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco’s Chinatown. ![]()
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