![]() After her bounder of a husband disappeared, seemingly for good, she opened a free medical clinic for women who have nowhere to turn. Relegated to lives of servitude, they often were placed in demeaning brothels.Ĭecilia Davies, a trained nurse who once served in the Crimea, finds herself in the middle of these conflicts. Chinese women in particular led perilous life. Branded by anti-Chinese groups as barbaric interlopers who threatened to take jobs away from white laborers, they faced riots resulting in the trashing and burning of their shops. ![]() ![]() Most Chinese were compelled to live in a segregated quarter while they worked to pay off moneys owed in contracts they had signed onto for their passage. In this novel the depth of anti-Chinese feeling among many of San Franciscos citizens is brought to light. ![]()
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