Red lights : the lives of sex workers in postsocialist China

Red lights : the lives of sex workers in postsocialist China / Tiantian Zheng.

In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karao...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zheng, Tiantian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Prostitution > China > History.
Sex industry > China.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Prostitution
Sex industry
Social conditions
China > Social conditions.
China
History
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Table of 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.

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