After working at Hong Kings saloon Polly is befriended by Charlie Bemis who owns the saloon next door After Jim dies Charlie becomes Pollys companion her escape from a life filled with men who want ID: 857338
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1 This is the story of LaLu Nathoy and her
This is the story of LaLu Nathoy and her struggles against racism, sexism, and her fight for freedom and independence. In the late 1860Õs, LaLu lives in Northern China with her family. They are a happy clan, and she does her
2 best to please her father by helping as
best to please her father by helping as a farmer when times are tough. Unfortunately, bandits run rampant in LaluÕs village, forcing her father to sell her in order for the rest of the family to survive. She is bought by
3 Chen, who eventually sells her to a Mada
Chen, who eventually sells her to a Madam under pretenses of becoming a prostitute. However, Lalu is shipped to San Francisco, to be Òauctioned offÓ as either a Chinese wife, or a prostitute. She has no say in her future, a
4 s it is made implicitly clear to her tha
s it is made implicitly clear to her that she must repay her de After working at Hong KingÕs saloon, Polly is befriended by Charlie Bemis, who owns the saloon next door. After Jim dies, Charlie becomes PollyÕs companion, he
5 r escape from a life filled with men who
r escape from a life filled with men who want nothing but pleasure from her. After ÒwinningÓ Polly from a game of poker, Charlie essentially ÒgivesÓ her conditional freedom; although Polly is free from prostitution, the Chi
6 nese Exclusion Act prevents her from rea
nese Exclusion Act prevents her from really having freedom. She is unable to own land, and she is unable to become a citizen. After enduring hardships from being a foreign-born woman, Polly must now endure the anti-Chinese sen