Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness
(Part of the Global Chinese Culture Series)
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The figure of the Chinese sex worker--who provokes both disdain and desire--has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers link sexual and cultural marginality, and their tales clarify the boundaries of citizenship, nationalism, and internationalism. In Transpacific Attachments, Lily Wong studies the mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure through transpacific...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231183399
ISBN13:9780231183390
Release Date:April 2020
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.8"
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