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The term Samsui women (红头巾; 紅頭巾; hóng tóu jīn, mandarin for 'red headscarf') broadly refers to a group of Chinese female immigrants who came to Malaya and Singapore between the 1920s and 1940s in search of construction and industrial jobs.
Samsui women, also known as hong tou jin (红头巾; Mandarin for “red headscarf”) after their trademark red headgear,1 were female immigrants mainly from the Sanshui (“Samsui” in Cantonese; meaning “three waters”) district of Canton (Guangdong today) province in southern China.
Sep 27, 2017 · Samsui women came mainly from the Sanshui district of China's Canton province. It is estimated that about 2,000 samsui women came to Singapore. A difficult life. Life was a struggle for...
Wearing a distinctive red headscarf or hong toujin (红头巾), the Samsui women were a sisterhood of mainly Cantonese or Hakka women who took a vow of chastity and supported themselves through manual labour.
Feb 6, 2024 · In the vibrant tapestry of Singapore’s rich cultural history, the Samsui women stand as enduring symbols of resilience, determination, and contribution. They were primarily from the district of Sanshui (三水, pronounced as “samsui” in Cantonese) in Guangdong, then known as Canton.
Samsui women, or hong tou jin (literally “red headscarf”) (Lim, 2002), came from peasant families in the Samsui area of the coastal province of Canton (Guangdong today) in China (Tang, 1960).
May 5, 2019 · Produced by the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (now Mediacorp), the television show highlights the travails of the Samsui women, who left their families in the Samsui area of Guangdong, China in the 1930s to migrate to Singapore in search of a livelihood.
A 24-part series “Samsui Woman” explores the hard and gruesome lives of these women who, in order to support their family in China, leaves their homeland Sanshui to work as labourers in construction sites in Singapore.
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Immediately recognisable by their hong tou jin or red headscarves, Singapore's Samsui women immigrants from the Samsui region of Guangdong, China have become icons of Singapore's twentieth century economic transformation.
The image of samsui women has been appropriated in various ways to champion desirable values such as hard work, thrift, resilience, and perseverance, says Remembering the Samsui Women author ...
