Samsui woman
Samsui woman noun: a Chinese female immigrant who came to Malaya or Singapore between the 1920s and 1940s in search of construction or industrial work, mostly from the Sanshui district of modern-day Guangdong in China.
Noun
Samsui woman (plural Samsui women)
- A Chinese female immigrant who came to Malaya or Singapore between the 1920s and 1940s in search of construction or industrial work, mostly from the Sanshui district of modern-day Guangdong in China.
- It’s believed that between 1934 and 1938 close to 200,000 of these women arrived in Singapore and Malaya. One group that stood out from the throng were those women who hailed from Guangdong’s Samsui county (in Mandarin Sanshui, literally ‘three rivers’). The image that Samsui women presented, with...2009, Mark R. Frost, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, “A Woman's World”, in Ibrahim Tahir, editor, Singapore: A Biography, Singapore: Editions Didier Millet Pte Ltd; National Museum of Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC...
Forms of Samsui woman
| plural | Samsui women |
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Origin of Samsui woman
From Cantonese 三水 (saam¹ seoi²).
Questions about Samsui woman
- What does Samsui woman mean?
- Samsui woman means a Chinese female immigrant who came to Malaya or Singapore between the 1920s and 1940s in search of construction or industrial work, mostly from the Sanshui district of modern-day Guangdong in China.
- What part of speech is Samsui woman?
- Samsui woman is a noun.
- What is the plural of Samsui woman?
- The plural of Samsui woman is Samsui women.
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