Red lights : the lives of sex workers in postsocialist China /
In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karao...
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| Idioma: | inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press
©2009.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttt80m |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Masculinity, power, and the Chinese state
- Patriarchy, prostitution, and masculinity in Dalian
- From banquets to karaoke bars : a new sexual awakening
- Fierce rivalries, unstable bonds : class in the karaoke bars
- Turning the grain : sex and the modern man
- The return of the prodigal daughter
- Clothes make the woman
- Performing love : the commodification of intimacy and romance
- Afterword: From entertainer to prostitute.