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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789285903321

Autore

Remick Elizabeth J. <1966->

Titolo

Regulating prostitution in China : gender and local statebuilding, 1900-1937 / / Elizabeth J. Remick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8047-9083-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

363.4/40951

Soggetti

Prostitution - Government policy - China - History - 20th century

Sex role - China - History - 20th century

Local government - China - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

In the early decades of the twentieth century, prostitution was one of only a few fates available to women and girls besides wife, servant, or factory worker. At the turn of the century, cities across China began to register, tax, and monitor prostitutes, taking different forms in different cities. Intervention by way of prostitution regulation connected the local state, politics, and gender relations in important new ways. The decisions that local governments made about how to deal with gender, and specifically the thorny issue of prostitution, had concrete and measurable effects on the