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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 213–214.
Published: 01 February 1995
...David Desser Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club . By Anne Allison . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1994 . xiii, 213 pp. $37.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 205–223.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., and holding ceremonial ribbons. They are supposed to embody Confucian ritual values and the practices of propriety that define China as a nation of civilization through their roles as ceremonial hostesses. This feminine symbol of national tradition and cultural virtues is realized through a heavy emphasis...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 214–215.
Published: 01 February 1995
... (human relationships that supposedly define the specifically Japanese dimension of Japanese business). The hostesses exist to facilitate this exchange of group feeling and corporate masculinity among the men. Linked to the mizu shobai (water trade, the traditional Japanese euphemism for the nightlife...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1115–1118.
Published: 01 November 2017
... three dichotomies: migrant workers and migrant wives, factory workers and bar hostesses, and migrant wives and bar hostesses. The symbolic demarcation of migrant workers and migrant wives results from the paternalistic and gendered approach of civil society groups toward the migrants. Religious centers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (4): 756–758.
Published: 01 August 1977
..., the contributors look at women in all walks of life, from farm wives to bar hostesses, from office employees to women working for the media, to suggest how women's lives have been changing and what problems they confront today. Eleven of the fourteen essays deal with women according to occupational category. What...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 890–893.
Published: 01 August 2010
... and the dynamic interactions between the researcher and the subjects of her study, adding a personal touch from which Yan's study would have benefited had the author also adopted such reflexivity. Chapter 5 traces the hostesses to their homes in the countryside, which, in their eyes, were only a temporary...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 534–535.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the relative exclusion of women from the higher echelons of business dealings in China. In large part, this is because businesswomen are expected to leave when men go to hostess bars, where most of the important bonding moments and business decisions are made. This chapter also delves into a range...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 446–448.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., such as the aforementioned “hostess girls” ( sanpei xiaojie ), are translated from Uyghur, Chinese, Afghan, Persian or another language, and from an English-language abstract of Ötkür's essay. But this will not decrease the value of this collection to the field of Uyghur studies. It should be required reading for people who...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1119–1120.
Published: 01 November 2007
... terrifying experiences of her work among karaoke bar hostesses in Dalian. The book, whose contributions come from a 2004 conference, is structured in three parts. Four chapters address the theme of class and community, exploring connections between socialist and postsocialist workers and workplaces...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 243–246.
Published: 01 February 2016
... prices for “leisure” activities with business associates at golf clubs and hostess bars. These arenas of domesticity, schooling, and (male) leisure were never distinct from the “family corporate system” ( kazoku kigyō kan kankei in Kimoto Kimiko's phrase) as Allison's acclaimed earlier research made...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 193–194.
Published: 01 February 2015
..., Jones insists on detailed local ethnography as a vehicle to show how women have been excluded from China's patriarchal tradition. Zheng Tiantian's piece on contemporary karaoke bar hostesses explores the inner working of what she calls “entrepreneurial masculinity,” as opposed to the historical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 499–500.
Published: 01 May 2015
... rifles, and girls were hypersexualized as entertainers and hostesses for their soldier patrons. Pate interprets the children as objects of control, sexualization, and occupation under the U.S. military, but also allows some space for “defiance,” in moments where children “shoot back” at the camera (p. 69...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 615–617.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., the workplace organization of sexual labor in places such as Korean “hostess clubs” in Japan. If I were to identify one weakness, it is the lack of a concluding chapter. Given the volume's engagement with a wide range of important topics, some suggestions for future research and inquiry would have been...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 874–875.
Published: 01 August 1998
..., but no movie theaters and no hostess bars. Chapter 2, "Lives," is a series of firstperson narratives reconstructed out of Fowler's interactions with day laborers, union members and sympathizers, proprietors and shopkeepers, bureaucrats, missionaries, and others. (Unfortunately, the book does not provide any...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 35 (1): 31–47.
Published: 01 November 1975
... sought-after dancing hall hostess in Shanghai's Paramount8 Night Club; her former gallants "had spent money enough [on her] to build a mountain of gold" (p. 59). Now in Taipei, she works in the Ballroom Nuit Parisienne as a ta-pan,s. sort of go-between receptionist in the service of the hostesses...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 953–976.
Published: 01 November 2015
... a discount, storms out when it is denied, and then kicks over what he calls the bogus shop sign that reads something like “the bar where the customer comes first” ( BAR saabisu BAR サービス). Entering next a bar called “Beautiful Girl Cabaret” ( Bijin Kyabaree 美人キャバレー), he sits down with a hostess whose...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 937–938.
Published: 01 November 1989
... of women from all walks of life, burdened with ingrate tasks of propaganda and regimentation, filled with wants and banality, yet devoid of decency, graciousness, or good taste. Little Nguyet, a whore turned "state tourism hostess" in Nguyen Ngoc Ngan's "In the Line of Socialist Duty," got sent...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 936–937.
Published: 01 November 1989
... and banality, yet devoid of decency, graciousness, or good taste. Little Nguyet, a whore turned "state tourism hostess" in Nguyen Ngoc Ngan's "In the Line of Socialist Duty," got sent to the School for Restoration of Human Dignity; although her human dignity was not restored, she did gain recognition and earn...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 32 (1): 191–192.
Published: 01 November 1972
... to or as she puts it, a disease. Even the most com- both the specialist and general reader of any monplace social pleasures are fraught with nationality. Further, as the author notes, its malaise. Of a Delhi hostess she writes: wide range should stimulate additional re- In her one may see the best of East...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (3): 512–513.
Published: 01 May 1965
... of "the search for enjoyment" in Japan in terms of its more sensational aspects, the geisha and the bar hostesses, the coffee shops, the hot spring resorts and the ski craze, all of which are the delight of the Western mass media, but all of which too unquestionably play a unique role in Japanese economy...
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