Download e-book for iPad: Regulating Prostitution in China: Gender and Local by Elizabeth J. Remick

By Elizabeth J. Remick

ISBN-10: 0804788367

ISBN-13: 9780804788366

within the early a long time of the 20th century, prostitution used to be considered one of just a couple of fates to be had to ladies and ladies in addition to spouse, servant, or manufacturing facility employee. on the flip of the century, towns throughout China started to sign in, tax, and computer screen prostitutes, taking diversified kinds in numerous towns. Intervention when it comes to prostitution law hooked up the neighborhood kingdom, politics, and gender relatives in vital new methods. the selections that neighborhood governments made approximately the way to care for gender, and particularly the thorny factor of prostitution, had concrete and measurable results at the constructions and capacities of the state.
This booklet examines how the ways that neighborhood executive selected to form the establishment of prostitution ended up reworking neighborhood states themselves. It starts through taking a look at the origins of prostitution rules in Europe and the way it unfold from there to China through Tokyo. Elizabeth Remick then drills down into the several regulatory techniques of Guangzhou (revenue-intensive), Kunming (coercion-intensive), and Hangzhou (light regulation). In all 3 circumstances, there have been specified outcomes and implications for statebuilding, a few of which made governments greater and wealthier, a few of which weakened and undermined improvement. This research makes a robust case for why gender has to be written into the tale of statebuilding in China, even supposing girls, mostly barred from political existence at the moment in China, weren't seen political actors.

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