Miss Tang Xing is a Japanese term for women who went to China and Southeast Asia to sell themselves in the second half of the 19th century, also known as "Nanyang Sister".
Ms. Tang was mainly born on the Shimabara Peninsula in Nagasaki Prefecture and the Amakusa Islands in Kumamoto Prefecture, but in fact, when journalists report on overseas prostitutes, they do not investigate the place of origin, but directly record Amakusa and northern Kitakushu. Generally, people called "concubines" seek girls in poor mountain villages, buy them from relatives, and then sell them to people called "concubines" to take overseas. Japan also referred to Miss Tang Xing as the Women's Army at that time.
Initially, Ms. Tang was mainly exported to areas controlled by Western colonialists in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Borneo, Thailand, Indonesia, etc., in order to meet the sexual needs of Western colonial troops and related laborers. With the expansion of the territory of the Western colonial area, Miss Tang Xing also appeared in Siberia, the three eastern provinces, Hawaii, California, and Zimbabwe.
This social phenomenon reached its peak at its peak at the end of the Meiji period. After the rise of Japan, Miss Tang Xing was regarded as a disgrace to Japan. With the enactment of the abolition order in 1920, the profession disappeared with it. Some of the overseas Miss Tang Xing were taken back to Japan to be congliang, and some stayed in the local area.
Some people regard Miss Tang Xing as a woman who sacrificed her life for the country, and believe that most of her income was donated to the country for military development, which can be seen as laying the economic foundation for the subsequent Sino-Japanese War. The modern Japanese thinker Fukuzawa Yukichi even said: "Japan has two weapons against Asia, one is the gun and the other is the women's army."
In 1972, writer Tomoko Yamazaki conducted research on the theme of Miss Tang Xing, and later published the novel "Sandakan Hachiban Prostitution Hall" (which was later adapted into the movie "Wanggo").
