Author: Hershatter, Gail

Dangerous pleasures : prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century Shanghai
Date1997
Publish_locationBerkeley
PublisherUniversity of California Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library [ASCC]
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
Series
ShelfDir. Office Gallery North, Stacks [ASCC]
Call NumberHQ250.S52 H47 1997
Descriptionxii, 591 p., [26] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Note

Dangerous pleasures : prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century Shanghai / Gail Hershatter.
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Page [ii].
"American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 1997"
Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-576) and index.

Pt. I. Histories and Hierarchies. Ch. 1. Introduction: Knowing and Remembering. Ch. 2. Classifying and Counting -- pt. II. Pleasures. Ch. 3. Rules of the House. Ch. 4. Affairs of the Heart. Ch. 5. Tricks of the Trade. Ch. 6. Careers -- pt. III. Dangers. Ch. 7. Trafficking. Ch. 8. Law and Disorder. Ch. 9. Disease -- pt. IV. Interventions. Ch. 10. Reformers. Ch. 11. Regulators. Ch. 12. Revolutionaries -- pt. V. Contemporary Conversations. Ch. 13. Naming. Ch. 14. Explaining. Ch. 15. History, Memory, and Nostalgia -- Glossary of Chinese Characters.

Second copy in ASCC stacks (HQ250.S52 H47 1997 c.2).

SubjectShanghai 上海--Social conditions Shanghai 上海--History--20th century Prostitution--China--Shanghai--History--20th century Women--China--Shanghai--Social conditions--20th century Women--China--Shanghai--Economic conditions
ISBN0520204395 ; 9780520204393
LCCN96005357