| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University |
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| Contents |
The geography of vice: spatial dimensions of clandestine sex work -- Venereal disease: policing the sources of infection -- Unfree labor: debt bondage and human trafficking -- Girls for sale: juvenile prostitution -- Đào singers: new ways to police female performance art -- Taxi dancers: Western culture and the urban-rural divide |
| Summary |
"Drawing on hundreds of detailed cases of sex work, this book examines the informal economy for clandestine prostitution that developed in the late colonial period in Vietnam and explores the geographic layout of Tonkin's black market sex industry; the widespread use of unfree labor in the form of debt bondage and human trafficking; the market for adolescent girls; and clandestine prostitution in ả đào singing houses and Western-style dance halls"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 24, 2020) |
| Subject |
Prostitution -- Vietnam, Northern -- 20th century
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Prostitution -- Law and legislation -- Vietnam, Northern -- 20th century
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Human trafficking -- Vietnam, Northern -- 20th century
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Women -- Vietnam, Northern -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
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Colonial influence
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Human trafficking
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Prostitution
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Prostitution -- Law and legislation
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Women -- Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Vietnam, Northern -- Colonial influence
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| Subject |
Northern Vietnam
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020011450 |
| ISBN |
9781501752674 |
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1501752677 |
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9781501752667 |
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1501752669 |
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