Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist ChinaIn 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 karaoke hostesses--a career whose name disguises the sex work and minimizes the surprising influence these women often have as power brokers. |
Contents
Introduction Masculinity Power and the Chinese State | 1 |
1 Patriarchy Prostitution and Masculinity in Dalian | 35 |
A New Sexual Awakening | 53 |
Class in the Karaoke Bars | 79 |
Sex and the Modern Man | 105 |
5 The Return of the Prodigal Daughter | 147 |
6 Clothes Make the Woman | 173 |
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Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China Tiantian Zheng No preview available - 2009 |
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