Regulating Prostitution in China : Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900-1937.

By: Remick, Elizabeth JMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780804790833Subject(s): Local government -- China -- History -- 20th century | Prostitution -- Government policy -- China -- History -- 20th century | Sex role -- China -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Regulating Prostitution in China : Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900-1937DDC classification: 363.4/40951 LOC classification: HQ250Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Maps, Tables, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Prostitution, Gender, and the State in Early Twentieth-Century China -- Chapter 1: The Origins of China's Prostitution Regulation Regime -- Chapter 2: Hangzhou - The Light Regulatory Approach -- Chapter 3: Guangzhou - Revenue-Intensive Prostitution Regulation -- Chapter 4: Kunming - Coercion-Intensive Prostitution Regulation -- Chapter 5: The Jiliangsuo - Prostitute Rescue Institutions -- Epilogue: The Regulation of Prostitution in the Twenty-first Century -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: DRAFT (to be approved by sponsor):The book examines the history of regulated prostitution in twentieth-century China as a way to show how, in concrete, monetary terms, government officials' choices about gender and sexuality--what is acceptable behavior for women and men in these areas--can make local government bigger, more complex, wealthier, more powerful, or just the opposite.
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Intro -- Contents -- Maps, Tables, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Prostitution, Gender, and the State in Early Twentieth-Century China -- Chapter 1: The Origins of China's Prostitution Regulation Regime -- Chapter 2: Hangzhou - The Light Regulatory Approach -- Chapter 3: Guangzhou - Revenue-Intensive Prostitution Regulation -- Chapter 4: Kunming - Coercion-Intensive Prostitution Regulation -- Chapter 5: The Jiliangsuo - Prostitute Rescue Institutions -- Epilogue: The Regulation of Prostitution in the Twenty-first Century -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index.

DRAFT (to be approved by sponsor):The book examines the history of regulated prostitution in twentieth-century China as a way to show how, in concrete, monetary terms, government officials' choices about gender and sexuality--what is acceptable behavior for women and men in these areas--can make local government bigger, more complex, wealthier, more powerful, or just the opposite.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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