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Dealing in Desire - Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work (Paperback)
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Dealing in Desire - Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work (Paperback)
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This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam's sex industry as the
country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of
five years, author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive
Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele: wealthy local
Vietnamese and Asian businessmen, Viet Kieus (ethnic Vietnamese
living abroad), Western businessmen, and Western budget-tourists.
Dealing in Desire takes an in-depth and often personal look at both
the sex workers and their clients to show how Vietnamese high
finance and benevolent giving are connected to the intimate spheres
of the informal economy. For the domestic super-elite who use the
levers of political power to channel foreign capital into real
estate and manufacturing projects, conspicuous consumption is a
means of projecting an image of Asian ascendancy to potential
investors. For Viet Kieus and Westerners who bring remittances into
the local economy, personal relationships with local sex workers
reinforce their ideas of Asia's rise and Western decline, while
simultaneously bolstering their diminished masculinity. Dealing in
Desire illuminates Ho Chi Minh City's sex industry as not just a
microcosm of the global economy, but a critical space where dreams
and deals are traded.
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