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 hostesses-a career whose name
disguises the sex work and minimizes the surprising influence these
women often have as power brokers. Zheng embarked on two years of
intensely embedded ethnographic fieldwork in her birthplace,
Dalian, a large northeastern Chinese seaport of over six million
people. During this time, Zheng lived and worked with a group of
hostesses in a karaoke bar, facing many of the same dangers that
they did and forming strong, intimate bonds with them. The result
is an especially engaging, moving story of young, rural women
struggling to find meaning, develop a modern and autonomous
identity, and, ultimately, survive within an oppressively
patriarchal state system. Moving from her case studies to broader
theories of sex, gender, and power, Zheng connects a growth in
capitalist entrepreneurialism to the emergence of an urban sex
industry, brilliantly illuminating the ways in which hostesses,
their clients, and the state are mutually created in postsocialist
China.
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