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Luc Xi: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi
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Hardcover. Translator(s): Malarney, Shaun Kingsley. Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory. Num Pages: 216 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; JFMX; MJCJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 436.
What does it mean when a city of 180,000 people has more than 5,000 women working as prostitutes? This question frames Vu Trong Phung’s 1937 classic reportage Luc Xi. In the late 1930s, Hanoi had a burgeoning commercial sex industry that involved thousands of people and hundreds of businesses. It was the centre of the city’s nightlife and the source of suffering, violence, exploitation, and a venereal disease epidemic. For Phung, a popular writer and intellectual, it also raised disturbing questions about the state of Vietnamese society and culture and whether his country really was ""progressing"" under French colonial rule.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Series
Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824834678
SKU
V9780824834678
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About Vu Trong Phung
Shaun Kingsley Malarney is associate professor of cultural anthropology at International Christian University, Tokyo
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