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Life and death in the garden : sex, drugs, cops, and robbers in wartime China / Kathryn Meyer.
Van Pelt Library HQ250.H37 M49 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meyer, Kathryn, 1947- author.
- Series:
- State and society in East Asia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitution--China--Harbin--History--20th century.
- Prostitution.
- Drug traffic--China--Harbin--History--20th century.
- Drug traffic.
- Crime--China--Harbin--History--20th century.
- Crime.
- Relations.
- History.
- Japan--Relations--China--History--20th century.
- Japan.
- China--Relations--Japan--History--20th century.
- China.
- Manchuria (China)--History--1931-1945.
- Manchuria (China).
- China--Harbin.
- Physical Description:
- x, 273 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- A word about transliterations and names
- Prologue
- Introduction
- In the garden
- Ice city
- Settlers
- Dirty work
- Contested land
- Conflict
- Manchukuo
- Control
- Working girls
- Harbin vice drugs
- Harbin vice gambling
- End of the road
- Punishing the police
- Conclusion
- Appendix A Character list
- Appendix B Cursing
- Appendix C Flophouse names and franchise owners
- Appendix D Currency
- Appendix E Cost of scavenged goods
- Appendix F Smuggling costs
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442223523
- 1442223529
- OCLC:
- 870284886
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