Regulating Prostitution in China: Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900–1937 by Elizabeth J. Remick (review)

Since there is a dearth of scholarship on these locations, her selection of these cities greatly contributes to the literature on urban China in the early twentieth century. [...]this “coercion-intensive” model was not the most profitable, and the income generated from prostitution was only enough f...

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Published inTwentieth-Century China Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 261 - 262
Main Author Chin, Angelina
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Baton Rouge Johns Hopkins University Press 01.10.2015
Subjects
20th century
Cities
Coercion
Colonialism
Gender
Occupational training
Prostitution
Regulation
Sex industry
Taxation
Women
Womens health
China
Japan
Europe
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Summary:Since there is a dearth of scholarship on these locations, her selection of these cities greatly contributes to the literature on urban China in the early twentieth century. [...]this “coercion-intensive” model was not the most profitable, and the income generated from prostitution was only enough for the state to run the municipal public hospital and the women’s reformatory and to support some charitable projects. [...]one can certainly appreciate Remick’s attempt to connect her historical study to the contemporary context.
ISSN:1521-5385
1940-5065
1940-5065
DOI:10.1353/tcc.2015.0006