The Chinese Tanka females were sold from Guangzhou to work as prostitutes for the overseas Chinese male community in the United States. During the California Gold Rush in the late 1840s, Chinese merchants transported thousands of young Chinese girls, including babies, from China to the United States. They sold the girls into sexual slavery within the red light district of San Francisco. Girls could be bought for $40 (about $1455 in 2023 dollars) in Guangzhou and sold for $400 (about $14,550 in 2023 dollars) in the United States. Many of these girls were forced into opium addiction and lived their entire lives as prostitutes.Unusual Historicals: Tragic Tales: Chinese Slave Girls of the Barbary Coast . Unusualhistoricals.blogspot.com (25 August 2010). Retrieved 2015-10-29.
the chinese tanka females were sold from guangzhou to work as prostitutes for the overseas chinese male community in the united states during the california gold rush in the late 1840s chinese merchants transported thousands of young chinese girls including babies from china to the united states they sold the girls into sexual slavery within the red light district of san francisco girls could be bought for $40 (about $1455 in 2023 dollars) in guangzhou and sold for $400 (about $14550 in 2023 dollars) in the united states many of these girls were forced into opium addiction and lived their entire lives as prostitutesunusual historicals tragic tales chinese slave girls of the barbary coast  unusualhistoricalsblogspotcom (25 august 2010) retrieved 2015-10-29