The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
by
Tiantian Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
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...