Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness

by Lily Wong

Book Overview

The figure of the Chinese sex worker--who provokes both disdain and desire--has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers link sexual and cultural marginality, and their tales clarify the boundaries of citizenship, nationalism, and internationalism. In Transpacific Attachments, Lily Wong studies the mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure through transpacific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231183399
• ISBN13: 9780231183390
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.8"