Regulating prostitution in China : gender and local statebuilding, 1900-1937 / Elizabeth J. Remick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Remick, Elizabeth J., 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--Government policy--China--History--20th century.

Prostitution.

Sex role--China--History--20th century.

Sex role.

Local government--China--History--20th century.

Local government.

History.

Prostitution--Government policy.

China.

Physical Description:

xv, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

Contents:

Introduction : prostitution, gender, and the state in early twentieth-century China

The origins of China's prostitution regulation regime

Hangzhou : the light regulatory approach

Guangzhou : revenue-intensive prostitution regulation

Kunming : coercion-intensive prostitution regulation

The jiliangsuo : prostitute rescue institutions

Epilogue : the regulation of prostitution in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index.

ISBN:

9780804788366

0804788367

OCLC:

864676797