San Toy

[5] However, a close inspection to the lyrics of such songs as Samee Gamee display a gentle mocking of the pretension of Western superiority.

In the town of Pynka Pong, where Sir Bing Preston is the British Consul, two jade merchants bribe Li, the private secretary of the mandarin Yen How.

However, the student Fo Hop discovers the secret, and his price for silence is San Toy's hand in marriage.

San Toy is in love with the Consul's son, naval Captain Bobby Preston, but a marriage between the two would never be permitted by either of their fathers.

Fo Hop, discovering their romance, tells San Toy that he will turn her into the model Chinese wife.