Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
By (Author) Tiantian Zheng
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
27th March 2009
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and cultural anthropology
306.740951
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 41mm
Description
In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of ruralurban 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 hostessesa career whose name disguises the sex work and minimizes the surprising influence these women often have as power brokers.
Author Bio
Tiantian Zheng is associate professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, Cortland.
