Transpacific Attachments : : Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness /

Transpacific Attachments : : Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness / / Lily Wong.

The figure of the Chinese sex worker—who provokes both disdain and desire—has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers link sexual and cultural marginality, and their tales clarify the boundaries of citizenship, national...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Wong, Lily,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
©2018
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Global Chinese Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 30 b&w photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Translation
  • Introduction: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Transpacific Histories of Affect
  • PART I: PACIFIC CROSSINGS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
  • PART II: SINOPHONIC LIAISONS DURING THE COLD WAR
  • PART III: DWELLING DESIRES AND THE NEOLIBERAL ORDER
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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