Red Lights : The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China /

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In 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 karao...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zheng, Tiantian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions
Sex-oriented businesses.
Prostitution.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
Industrie pornographique > Chine.
Sex-oriented businesses > China.
Prostitution > China > History.
China.
Chine > Conditions sociales.
China > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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