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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zheng, Tiantian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Prostitution > China > History.
Sex-oriented businesses > China.
China > Social conditions.
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.