Red lights : the lives of sex workers in postsocialist China / / Tiantian Zheng

• Autore: Zheng Tiantian
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 306.74095109049--dc22
• Soggetto topico: Prostitution - China - History; Sex-oriented businesses - China
• Soggetto geografico: China Social conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-279) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Masculinity, power, and the Chinese state -- Patriarchy, prostitution, and masculinity in Dalian -- From banquets to karaoke bars : a new sexual awakening -- Fierce rivalries, unstable bonds : class in the karaoke bars -- Turning the grain : sex and the modern man -- The return of the prodigal daughter -- Clothes make the woman -- Performing love : the commodification of intimacy and romance -- Afterword: From entertainer to prostitute.
• Sommario/riassunto: In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karaoke hostesses-a career whose name disguises the sex work and minimizes the surprising influence these women often have as power brokers. Zheng embarked on two years of intensely embedded ethnographic fieldwork in her birthplace, Dalian, a large northeastern Chinese seaport of over six million people.
• Titolo autorizzato: Red lights
• ISBN: 0-8166-6820-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824462003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II