The study of women in twentieth-century China has expanded so quickly in the past two
decades that a state-of-the-field survey becomes outdated in the time that it takes to …

Shanghai's nightlife, from the mid-nineteenth century until the victory of the Communist Party
in 1949, was dominated by the world of prostitution. Henriot portrays the Chinese sex trade …

This volume aims both to establish cinema as a vital force in Shanghai culture and to direct
attention to early Chinese cinema, a crucial chapter in Chinese cultural history long …

This multi-layered history of a horrific famine that took place in late-nineteenth-century China
focuses on cultural responses to trauma. The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten …

Drawing upon a unique and untapped reservoir of newspapers, magazines, novels,
government documents, photographs and illustrations, this book traces the origin, pinnacle …

After decades of near silence on the matter, sex is being talked about in China. But what is
being said? Who is allowed to speak? And whose purposes are being served? This ground …

Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness
TRANSPACIFIC ATTACHMENTS Global Chinese Culture Page 2 Global Chinese Culture …

Using data from a community-based study of injection drug users (IDUs) in Sichuan
Province in China, this study compared the level of HIV risk behavior (needle sharing and …

A french physician and corresponding member ofthe Societe d'anthropologie de Paris, Paul
Michaut spent the final years of the nine? teenth century studying matters medical, erotic …

This important contribution to the study of early modern Chinese fiction and representation of
gender relations focuses on literary representations of the prostitute produced in the Ming …