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Regulating Prostitution in China - Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900-1937 (Hardcover)
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Regulating Prostitution in China - Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900-1937 (Hardcover)
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In the early decades of the twentieth century, prostitution was one
of only a few fates available to women and girls besides wife,
servant, or factory worker. At the turn of the century, cities
across China began to register, tax, and monitor prostitutes,
taking different forms in different cities. Intervention by way of
prostitution regulation connected the local state, politics, and
gender relations in important new ways. The decisions that local
governments made about how to deal with gender, and specifically
the thorny issue of prostitution, had concrete and measurable
effects on the structures and capacities of the state.
This book examines how the ways in which local government chose to
shape the institution of prostitution ended up transforming local
states themselves. It begins by looking at the origins of
prostitution regulation in Europe and how it spread from there to
China via Tokyo. Elizabeth Remick then drills down into the
different regulatory approaches of Guangzhou (revenue-intensive),
Kunming (coercion-intensive), and Hangzhou (light regulation). In
all three cases, there were distinct consequences and implications
for statebuilding, some of which made governments bigger and
wealthier, some of which weakened and undermined development. This
study makes a strong case for why gender needs to be written into
the story of statebuilding in China, even though women, generally
barred from political life at that time in China, were not visible
political actors.
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