Red lights : the lives of sex workers in postsocialist China /
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| Author / Creator: | Zheng, Tiantian. |
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| Imprint: | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009. |
| Description: | 293 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7699362 |
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.
