Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness
by
Lily Wong
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
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,...