[Read free] Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (Philip E.Lilienthal Books)
▲ Gail Hershatter ▲
| #1582780 in Books | 1999-02-16 | 1999-02-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.58 x6.10l,1.96 | File Name: 0520204395 | 591 pages
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Shanghai Prositution|By Kya|I agree with the reviewer who states this is a great book to learn about Shanghai. The prostitution "hierarchy" of 1890 through 1930's and forward is delineated. Since prostitution does not exist in a vacum, a lot of information and details about history, culture, media, population groups, etc. in and around Shanghai is introduced. May 5th revolu||"Hershatter provides a model of the use of a single theme as a window through which to experience and interpret the intellectual, political, social, and economic history of a given place. . . . Her approaches to historiography and theory are challenging and i
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 declassé elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. Yet they were central figures in Shanghai urban life, entering the historical record whenever others wanted to appreciate, castigate, count, regulate, cure, pathologize, warn about, rescue, elimina... [PDF.ad11] Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (Philip E.Lilienthal Books) Rating: 3.64 (723 Votes)
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