Dangerous pleasures : prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century Shanghai /

This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. Yet they were central figures in Sh...

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Main Author: Hershatter, Gail.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.
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