The Penang Po Leung Kuk: Chinese Women, Prostitution and a Welfare Organisation

The Penang Po Leung Kuk Monograph 37
 The Penang Po Leung Kuk: Chinese Women, Prostitution and a Welfare Organisation
By Neil Khor Jin Keong and Khoo Keat Siew
192pp. Size: 158x218mm. Hardcover
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Content:

Acknowledgments
Abstract
Foreword
Introduction
  1. Chapter 1: An Early History of the Chinese in Penang (1786-1881)
  2. Chapter 2: Events Leading-up to the Founding of the Po Leung Kuk (PLK) and its Early Years as a Half Way House (1877-1925)
  3. Chapter 3: The Babington Avenue Home Before WWII (1926-1945)
  4. Chapter 4: The Immediate Postwar Period and the PLK in Local Hands (1945-1969)
  5. Chapter 5: A Multi-ethnic Home and New Directions (1969-1977)
  6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendice
Tables
Index

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