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Hardcover Superior Servants: The Legendary Cantonese Amahs of the Far East Book

ISBN: 0195888960

ISBN13: 9780195888966

Superior Servants: The Legendary Cantonese Amahs of the Far East

This book focuses on a unique group of women who became an integral part of thousands of Chinese and expatriate homes in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong from the 1930s to the 1970s--the amahs who hailed from the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong Province in China. Single, illiterate, and of peasant background, the amah served as nanny, cook, parlormaid, housemaid, and laundress, providing a standard of service and displaying a degree of loyalty unparalleled...

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