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Book Synopsis
Drawn from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. This title examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century.

Table of Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART I • HISTORIES AND HIERARCHIES
Chapter 1. Introduction: Knowing and Remembering
Chapter 2. Classifying and Counting

PART II • PLEASURES
Chapter 3. Rules of the House
Chapter 4. Affairs of the Heart
Chapter 5. Tricks of the Trade
Chapter 6. Careers

PART III • DANGERS
Chapter 7. Trafficking
Chapter 8. Law and Disorder
Chapter g. Disease

PART IV• INTERVENTIONS
Chapter 10. Reformers
Chapter 11. Regulators
Chapter 12. Revolutionaries

PART V • CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS
Chapter 13. Naming
Chapter 14. Explaining
Chapter 15. History, Memory, and Nostalgia

APPENDIX A: TABLES
APPENDIX B: POEMS
NOTES
GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 16 February 1999
      ISBN-13 9780520204393
      978-0520204393
      ISBN-10 0520204395
      Also in:
      Asian history Social and cultural history Sex and sexuality, social aspects

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Drawn from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. This title examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century.

      Table of Contents
      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      PART I • HISTORIES AND HIERARCHIES
      Chapter 1. Introduction: Knowing and Remembering
      Chapter 2. Classifying and Counting

      PART II • PLEASURES
      Chapter 3. Rules of the House
      Chapter 4. Affairs of the Heart
      Chapter 5. Tricks of the Trade
      Chapter 6. Careers

      PART III • DANGERS
      Chapter 7. Trafficking
      Chapter 8. Law and Disorder
      Chapter g. Disease

      PART IV• INTERVENTIONS
      Chapter 10. Reformers
      Chapter 11. Regulators
      Chapter 12. Revolutionaries

      PART V • CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS
      Chapter 13. Naming
      Chapter 14. Explaining
      Chapter 15. History, Memory, and Nostalgia

      APPENDIX A: TABLES
      APPENDIX B: POEMS
      NOTES
      GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS
      BIBLIOGRAPHY
      INDEX

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