Lục Xì: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi
(Part of the Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory Series)
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What does it mean when a city of 180,000 people has more than 5,000 women working as prostitutes? This question frames Vu Trong Phung's 1937 classic reportage Luc Xi. In the late 1930s, 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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0824834674
ISBN13:9780824834678
Release Date:November 2010
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.48 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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