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Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849–1949
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TL;DR: A review of prostitution and sexuality can be found in this paper, where the authors describe the courtesans from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, from the high class brothel to mass sexuality: the explosion of common prostitution from 1849 to 1949.
Abstract: Introduction: prostitution and sexuality: a historiographical review 1. The courtesans from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries: the end of a world 2. Lives of splendor and wretchedness 3. From the high class brothel to mass sexuality: the explosion of common prostitution from 1849 to 1949 4. The ancillary forms of prostitution 5. The prostitutes in the twentieth century: an essay in social anthropology 6. Sex, suffering and violence 7. The female market in Shanghai and China 8. The houses of prostitution in the urban space 9. The organization and management of the houses of prostitution 10.The economy of sex 11. Disease prevention and the policing of morality 12. The abolitionist movement in Shanghai (1915-1925) 13. The Nationalists and regulationism Chinese style (1927-1949) 14. The institutions for the rescue of the prostitutes (1880-1949) Conclusion.
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TL;DR: Differences in occupational control among one type of brothel-based prostitutes in China are examined, demonstrating the importance of prevention activities directed at the brothel managers and clients, as well as the sex workers, to focus on sociocultural aspects of sex work.
Abstract: Sexual transmission of HIV in China is rapidly increasing in part driven by commercial sex work. This article examines variations in occupational control among one type of brothel-based prostitutes in China and the relationship between the terms and content of this work and the risk of HIV/AIDS. Organizational factors are discussed as part of the current political economic and social context of sex work in China. The analysis is based on ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews conducted in south China in 2000 and 2001 involving 158 female prostitutes from 45 brothels in 4 red light districts. Qualitative analysis of interview and observational data used development of thematic codes measuring occupational control. Brothel-based female sex workers in China are a heterogeneous population displaying considerable variability in the organization of life and work relationships with managers and clients ability to negotiate condom use knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV and occupational identity all of which may result in different risks of acquiring HIV. HIV prevention activities in China must focus on sociocultural aspects of sex work. Such interventions depend on detailed knowledge of its organization. The results of this study demonstrate the importance of prevention activities directed at the brothel managers and clients as well as the sex workers. (authors)
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TL;DR: The study of women in twentieth-century China has expanded so quickly in the past two decades that a state-of-the-field survey becomes outdated in the time that it takes to assemble and write one as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The study of women in twentieth-century China has expanded so quickly in the past two decades that a state-of-the-field survey becomes outdated in the time that it takes to assemble and write one. This burgeoning area of inquiry draws its inspiration and approaches from many sources outside "the China field," a realm no longer hermetically sealed within exclusive logics of sinology or area studies. Research about Chinese women has been enriched by the growth of women's studies abroad and in China; by debates about gender as a category of analysis and its uneasy relationship to sex and sexuality; by conversations inside established scholarly disciplines about gender's entanglement with politics, migration, nation building, and modernity; by discussions across the disciplines about agency, resistance, subjectivity, and voice; and by several waves of refigured Marxism in the wake of feminist activity, the demise of socialism, and the development of postcolonial scholarship. During the same period, available sources and opportunities for research and fieldwork in China have expanded for both Chinese scholars and foreigners, giving rise to scholarly conversations that sometimes intersect and sometimes trace utterly separate trajectories. To complicate a state-of-the-field project even further, writing about women routinely crosses disciplinary boundaries. For China the disciplines that investigate "women" shift with the period of time under investigation as well as with changing disciplinary norms. History, for instance, used to stop at the edge of the People's
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the legal consciousness of Chinese sex workers through their interpretations of abusive experiences and found that sex workers name abuse as harmful, blame others for it, and occasionally make claims.
Abstract: Although prostitution is illegal, millions of women sell sex in China. In the process, they experience significant abuse and harm at the hands of clients, madams, pimps, the police, and health officials. This article examines the legal consciousness of Chinese sex workers through their interpretations of these abusive experiences. It reveals how they think and talk about them, and how their reactions sometimes translate into concrete actions. My evidence shows that sex workers name abuse as harmful, blame others for it, and occasionally make claims. They also have strong opinions about prostitution policies, and the relationship between these regulations and their experiences of abuse. These findings place scope conditions on previous theories of marginalized people and the law, which suggest that powerless individuals perceive a more peripheral role of the law in their lives. In addition, this evidence enriches our understanding of legal consciousness in China by showing how debates around the concept apply more broadly than previously recognized.
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05 Jun 2012TL;DR: Yangwen Zheng as discussed by the authors explores the history of opium consumption in China from 1483 to the late twentieth century, and traces this transformation over a period of five hundred years, asking who introduced opium to China, how it spread across all sections of society, embraced by rich and poor alike as a culture and an institution.
Abstract: In a remarkable and broad-ranging narrative, Yangwen Zheng's book explores the history of opium consumption in China from 1483 to the late twentieth century. The story begins in the mid-Ming dynasty, when opium was sent as a gift by vassal states and used as an aphrodisiac in court. Over time, the Chinese people from different classes and regions began to use it for recreational purposes, so beginning a complex culture of opium consumption. The book traces this transformation over a period of five hundred years, asking who introduced opium to China, how it spread across all sections of society, embraced by rich and poor alike as a culture and an institution. The book, which is accompanied by a fascinating collection of illustrations, will appeal to students and scholars of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, and all those with an interest in China.
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Abstract: (1998). Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 89-90.
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