Prostitution and sexuality in Shanghai : a social history 1849-1949 / Christian Henriot ; translated by Noel Castelino.
Henriot, Christian.
2001
HQ250.S52 H4613 2001 (Mapit)
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Title
Prostitution and sexuality in Shanghai : a social history 1849-1949 / Christian Henriot ; translated by Noel Castelino.
Author
Henriot, Christian.
Uniform Title
Belles de Shanghai. English
ISBN
0521571650 (hbk.)
9780521571654 (hbk.)
Publication Details
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Language
English
Language Note
Translation of: Belles de Shanghai.
Description
xviii, 467 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Call Number
HQ250.S52 H4613 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.74/0951/132
Summary
"Shanghai's night life, 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, from the sophisticated life of the courtesan to the day-to-day travails of the common prostitute. He examines the extent to which these worlds were integral to Chinese social and business life, mores, and sexuality. Henriot portrays a sector that was sensitive to economic and social conditions, and thus accurately reflected Shanghai's changing social structure, societal attitudes, and commercial development. This is the most comprehensive treatment available of a social phenomenon that has been much discussed in studies of Chinese culture, but largely neglected as a subject of serious historical concern. At the crossroads of social and intellectual history, this study goes behind the curtain of exoticism and takes a realistic look at a vibrant sector of Shanghai's economic and cultural life."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-462) and index.
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Part 1. The Courtesans: prostitutes to the elite and the elite of the prostitutes. The Courtesans from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries: the end of a world
Lives of splendor and wretchedness
Part 2. The market of prostitution and mass sexuality. From the high-class brothel to mass sexuality: the explosion of common prostitution from 1849-1949
Ancillary forms of prostitution (1920s-1940s)
The prostitute in the twentieth century: an essay in social anthropology
Sex, suffering, and violence
Part 3. The space and economy of prostitution. The female market in Shanghai and China
Houses of prostitution in the urban space
The organization and management of the houses of prostitution
The economy of sex
Part 4. Abortive attempts to regulate prostitution in Shanghai. Disease prevention and the policing of morality (1860-1914)
The Abolitionist Movement in Shanghai (1915-1925)
The Nationalists and regulationism Chinese-style (1927-1949)
Institutions for the rescue of the prostitutes (1880-1949).

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