Life and death in the garden : sex, drugs, cops, and robbers in wartime China /

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This compelling book provides a rare glimpse into the heart of wartime China. Kathryn Meyer draws us into the perilous world of the Garden of Grand Vision, a ramshackle structure where a floating population of thousands found shelter-and despair. We follow the three Japanese police officers who were...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meyer, Kathryn, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Colección:State and society in East Asia.
Temas:
1900-1999
Prostitution > China > Harbin > History > 20th century.
Drug traffic > China > Harbin > History > 20th century.
Crime > China > Harbin > History > 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Crime
Drug traffic
International relations
Prostitution
Japan > Relations > China > History > 20th century.
China > Relations > Japan > History > 20th century.
Manchuria (China) > History > 1931-1945.
China
China > Harbin
China > Manchuria
Japan
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • A word about transliterations and names
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • In the garden
  • Ice city
  • Settlers
  • Dirty work
  • Contested land
  • Conflict
  • Manchukuo
  • Control
  • Working girls
  • Harbin vice drugs
  • Harbin vice gambling
  • End of the road
  • Punishing the police
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A Character list
  • Appendix B Cursing
  • Appendix C Flophouse names and franchise owners
  • Appendix D Currency
  • Appendix E Cost of scavenged goods
  • Appendix F Smuggling costs
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author.

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