TY  - GEN
T1  - Lục xì : prostitution and venereal disease in colonial Hanoi
T2  - Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
A1  - Vũ, Trọng Phụng, 1912-1939
A2  - Malarney, Shaun Kingsley
LA  - English
LA  - Vietnamese
PP  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawaiʻi Press
YR  - 2011
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn794925349
AB  - 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 intellectual, it also raised disturbing questions about the state of Vietnamese society and culture and whether his country really was "progressing" under French colonial rule.
AB  - Translator Shaun Kingsley Malarney's thoughtful and multifaceted introduction provides historical background on colonialism, prostitution, and venereal disease in Vietnam and discusses reportage as a literary genre, political tool, and historical source. A fully annotated translation of Luc Xi follows, in which Phung takes readers into the heart of colonial Hanoi's sex industry, portraying its female workers, the officials who attempted to regulate it, the doctors who treated its victims, and the secretive medical facility known as the Nha Luc Xi ("The Dispensary"), which examined prostitutes for venereal diseases and held them for treatment. Drawing from his interviews with doctors, officials, and prostitutes and the writings of French doctors on prostitution and venereal disease, Phung provides a rare, firsthand look at the damage caused by the commercial sex industry. His sympathetic portrayal of the Vietnamese underclass is considered among the most accurate, and he also offers an acerbic, humorous, and critical view of the changes wrought by colonialism in Southeast Asia. --Book Jacket
OP  - 176
CN  - HQ242.5.H36 V8 2011
SN  - 9780824860615
SN  - 0824860616
SN  - 0824834674
SN  - 9780824834678
SN  - 9780824871642
SN  - 0824871642
KW  - Prostitutes : Vietnam : Hanoi : Social conditions.
KW  - Prostitution : Vietnam : Hanoi : History.
KW  - Sex Work : history
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Sexually Transmitted Diseases : history
KW  - Social Conditions : history
KW  - Vietnam
KW  - Prostituées : Viêt-nam : Hanoi : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Médecine : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Infrastructure.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Prostitution & Sex Trade.
KW  - Prostitutes : Social conditions
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Vietnam : Hanoi
KW  - Journalismus
KW  - Kolonialismus
KW  - Nachtleben
KW  - Reportage
KW  - Vietnamesisch
KW  - Hanoi
KW  - Venereal diseases.
KW  - History
ER  -