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Red lights : the lives of sex workers in postsocialist China

Zheng presents a revealing and intimate study of rural Chinese women working in an urban sex trade
Print Book, English, ©2009
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, ©2009
History
293 pages ; 24 cm
9780816659029, 9780816659036, 0816659028, 0816659036
271104613
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