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The Chinese Women in Los Angeles
In 1871, there were 34 Chinese women in Los Angeles half of them were wives of merchants and then the other half were in the world's oldest profession. There were very few families even because it was so hard to bring a woman in from China and most of the women who came had been bought or sold kidnapped to be brought here to work as prostitutes. The Chinese wives are locked, you know kept in the seclusion I'll just give you another example my great grandfather had a total of four wives Tiesi is just one of them. She's the only American all the other three were Chinese. White women weren't going to have anything to do with her because she was married
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