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Hong Kong movies have made sharp-tongued caricatures of amahs, the women who left the mainland to make a living as housemaids. Roger Lee explains why he wrote a play to celebrate their independence and tenacityThe amahs were women who left rural China for Hong Kong in the late 1940s to find work as live-in housemaids in wealthy households.

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