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Black Market Business - Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920-1945 (Hardcover)
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Black Market Business - Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920-1945 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Black Market Business is a grassroots social history of the
clandestine market for sex in colonial Tonkin. Lively and well
told, it explores the ways in which sex workers, managers, and
clients evaded the colonial regulation system in the turbulent
economy of the interwar years. Christina Elizabeth Firpo argues
that the confluence of economic, demographic, and cultural changes
sweeping late colonial Tonkin created spaces of tension in which
the interwar black market sex industry thrived. The clandestine sex
industry flourished in sites of legal inconsistency, cultural
changes, economic disparity, rural-urban division, and demographic
shifts. As a nexus of the many tensions besetting late colonial
Tonkin, the black market sex industry serves as a useful lens
through which to examine these tensions and the ways they affected
marginalized populations. More specifically, an investigation of
this black market shows how a particular population of impoverished
women-a group regrettably understudied by historians-experienced
the tensions. Drawing on an astonishingly diverse and multilingual
source base, Black Market Business includes detailed cases of
juvenile prostitution, human trafficking, and debt bondage
arrangements in sex work, as well as cases in Tonkin's bars,
hotels, singing houses, and dance clubs. Using GIS technology and
big data sets to track individual actors in history, it serves as a
model for teaching new methodological approaches to conducting
social histories of women and marginalized people.
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