Red lights
Subtitle: the lives of sex workers in postsocialist China
By: Tiantian Zheng.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780816659029; 9780816659036
Subjects: Prostitution -- China -- History; Sex-oriented businesses -- China; China -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Masculinity, power, and the Chinese state; title: Patriarchy, prostitution, and masculinity in Dalian; title: From banquets to karaoke bars : a new sexual awakening; title: Fierce rivalries, unstable bonds : class in the karaoke bars; title: Turning the grain : sex and the modern man; title: The return of the prodigal daughter; title: Clothes make the woman; title: Performing love : the commodification of intimacy and romance.