Black Market Business

by Christina Elizabeth Firpo

Black Market Business is a grassroots social history of the clandestine market for sex in colonial Tonkin. Lively and well told, it explores the ways in which sex workers, managers, and clients evaded the colonial regulation system in the turbulent economy of the interwar years. Christina Elizabeth Firpo argues that the confluence of economic, demographic, and cultural changes sweeping late colonial Tonkin created spaces of tension in which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501752650
• ISBN13: 9781501752650
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up