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Red lights : the lives of sex workers in postsocialist China / Tiantian Zheng.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zheng, Tiantian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitution--China--History.
- Prostitution.
- Sex industry.
- China.
- History.
- Sex industry--China.
- China--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 293 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Masculinity, power, and the Chinese state
- Patriarchy, prostitution, and masculinity in Dalian
- From banquets to karaoke bars : a new sexual awakening
- Fierce rivalries, unstable bonds : class in the karaoke bars
- Turning the grain : sex and the modern man
- The return of the prodigal daughter
- Clothes make the woman
- Performing love : the commodification of intimacy and romance
- Afterword: From entertainer to prostitute.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816659029
- 0816659028
- 9780816659036
- 0816659036
- OCLC:
- 271104613
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