Inch Chua has always known she comes from a tough stock of women. The actress and singersongwriter's biggest role model is her grandmother. Despite being abandoned as a child, Grandma raised a family of seven girls of her own. Grandma’s biological mother who sold her to a washerwoman after she arrived in Singapore from China remains a mystery. Who was she? What drove her to sell her child? And was her life better for it?

00:00 Who is Inch Chua?
00:48 My grandmother's two mothers
05:55 Why were baby girls abandoned or sold?
08:25 What happened to some girls who were sold?
10:05 How much did my adoptive greatgrandparents earn?
13:29 Hard work of samsui women, Asia's first feminists
18:20 Conversation with my grandma
20:29 Would she ever have sold her own daughters?

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