Lục xì : prostitution and venereal disease in colonial Hanoi /

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In the late 1930's, Hanoi had a burgeoning commercial sex industry that involved thousands of people and hundreds of businesses. It was the center of the city's nightlife and the source of suffering, violence, exploitation, and a venereal disease epidemic. for Phung, a popular writer and i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vũ, Trọng Phụng, 1912-1939 (Author)
Other Authors: Malarney, Shaun Kingsley (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Vietnamese
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2011.
Series:Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
Subjects:
Prostitutes > Vietnam > Hanoi > Social conditions.
Prostitution > Vietnam > Hanoi > History.
Sex Work > history
History, 20th Century
Sexually Transmitted Diseases > history
Social Conditions > history
Prostituées > Viêt-nam > Hanoi > Conditions sociales.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Prostitution & Sex Trade.
Prostitutes > Social conditions
Prostitution
Journalismus
Kolonialismus
Nachtleben
Reportage
Vietnamesisch
Venereal diseases.
Vietnam
Vietnam > Hanoi
Hanoi
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A blemish on the city
  • The muse of the dispensary girls
  • A few statistics and a little history
  • There must be harm
  • Strolling inside the dispensary
  • The girls' squad
  • Women of the book of sorrows
  • Medical examination day
  • Student and teacher
  • The authorities' perspective
  • Holding papers
  • Tearing up papers.

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