A vivid account of how prostitution was just one part of an economic system in which women and young girls were regularly bought, sold, traded, pawned, or adopted as slaves, brides, or foster children.
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978-0-86656-134-1 (9780866561341)
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Contents Foreword
Powder Faces and Wild Chickens: Chinese Prostitution 1860-1911
Law, Li, and Popular Mentality
Sexual Economy
Transformations and Transvaluations 1911-1936
A Picture of Twentieth-Century Prostitution
Prostitution and Profit: The Contradictions of Revenue and Reform
Reference Notes Included
Bibliography
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