Lục Xì : : Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi / / Vu Trong Phung.
What does it mean when a city of 180,000 people has more than 5,000 women working as prostitutes? This question frames Vu Trong Phung's 1937 classic reportage Luc Xi. In the late 1930s, Hanoi had a burgeoning commercial sex industry that involved thousands of people and hundreds of businesses....
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 8 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Translator's note
- Introduction
- 1. A Blemish on the City
- 2. The Muse of the Dispensary Girls
- 3. A Few Statistics and a Little History
- 4. There Must Be Harm
- 5. Strolling inside the Dispensary
- 6. The Girls' Squad
- 7. Women of the Book of Sorrows
- 8. Medical Examination Day
- 9. Student and Teacher
- 10. The Authorities' Perspective
- 11. Holding Papers
- 12. Tearing Up Papers
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Notes
- References
- Index