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Foreign News
April 14, 1880
The Cheyenne Daily Leader
Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming
What is this article about?
Burmese Baptist missionary trainee Moung Edwin lectured in Baltimore on the plight of girls in China, attributing it to religious beliefs that they have no souls, leading to infanticide, sale, or drowning of unwanted infants.
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Girls in China.
Moung Edwin, a Burmese, who has been educated in this country with the view of sending him as a Baptist missionary to Burma, lectured last week in Baltimore. Speaking of the deplorable condition of women in the East, owing mainly to peculiar religious teachings, he said: 'Girls in China are believed to have no souls, and to kill them is not murder, and, therefore, not to be punished. Where parents are too poor to support the girl children they are disposed of in the following way: At regular intervals an appointed officer goes through a village and collects from poor parents all the girl children they cannot care for, when they are about 8 days old. He has two large baskets attached to the end of a bamboo pole and slung over his shoulder. Six infants are placed in each basket, and he carries them to some neighboring village and exposes them for sale. Mothers who desire to raise wives for their sons buy such as they may select. The others are taken to the government asylum, of which there are many all through the country. If there is room there they are taken in, if not they are drowned.'
Moung Edwin, a Burmese, who has been educated in this country with the view of sending him as a Baptist missionary to Burma, lectured last week in Baltimore. Speaking of the deplorable condition of women in the East, owing mainly to peculiar religious teachings, he said: 'Girls in China are believed to have no souls, and to kill them is not murder, and, therefore, not to be punished. Where parents are too poor to support the girl children they are disposed of in the following way: At regular intervals an appointed officer goes through a village and collects from poor parents all the girl children they cannot care for, when they are about 8 days old. He has two large baskets attached to the end of a bamboo pole and slung over his shoulder. Six infants are placed in each basket, and he carries them to some neighboring village and exposes them for sale. Mothers who desire to raise wives for their sons buy such as they may select. The others are taken to the government asylum, of which there are many all through the country. If there is room there they are taken in, if not they are drowned.'
What sub-type of article is it?
Religious Affairs
What keywords are associated?
China Girls
Infanticide
Religious Beliefs
Girl Infants Sale
Drowning Asylums
What entities or persons were involved?
Moung Edwin
Where did it happen?
China
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
China
Key Persons
Moung Edwin
Outcome
unsold girl infants without asylum space are drowned.
Event Details
Girls in China are believed to have no souls, making their killing not murder. Poor parents' girl children, about 8 days old, are collected by an officer in baskets, carried to neighboring villages for sale as future wives. Unsold ones go to government asylums; if no room, they are drowned.