Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China

by Tiantian Zheng

Book Overview

In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban 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 hostesses--a career whose name disguises the sex work and minimizes the surprising influence these women often have as power brokers.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816659036
• ISBN13: 9780816659036
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"