Black Market Business
(Part of the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Series)
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Black Market Business is a grassroots social history of the clandestine market for sex in colonial Tonkin. Lively and well told, it explores the ways in which sex workers, managers, and clients evaded the colonial regulation system in the turbulent economy of the interwar years. Christina Elizabeth Firpo argues that the confluence of economic, demographic, and cultural changes sweeping late colonial Tonkin created spaces of tension in which...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1501752650
ISBN13:9781501752650
Release Date:December 2020
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:276 Pages
Weight:1.23 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
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