Lục xì : prostitution and venereal disease in colonial Hanoi /
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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Vietnamese |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wqs39 |
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.