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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (2): 477–478.
Published: 01 May 1991
...Pasuk Phongpaichit Sex, Money and Morality: Prostitution and Tourism in Southeast Asia . By Thanh-Dam Truong . London : Zed Books , 1990 . viii, 227 pp. $17.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 477 Sex, Money...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 708–710.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Tamara Loos Sex and Borders: Gender, National Identity, and Prostitution Policy in Thailand . By Leslie Ann Jeffrey . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 2002 . xxviii, 195 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 496–497.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Ming-Bao Yu Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai . By Gail Hershatter . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1997 . xi, 694 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 496 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 522–523.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Sharon Carstens Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870–1940 . By James Francis Warren . Singapore : Oxford University Press , 1993 . xvi, 434 pp. $65.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 522 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Ah Ku...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 481–483.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Miriam Wattles Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850–1913 . By Ann Marie L. Davis . London : Lexington Books , 2019 . 237 pp. ISBN: 9781498542142 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 If, as Oscar...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (2): 316–317.
Published: 01 February 1984
...Diana Lary Beautiful Merchandise: Prostitution in China, 1860–1936 . By Sue Gronewold. New York : Haworth Press (Women and History, no. 1), 1982 . 128 pp. $20. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 316 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES After a couple of wasted decades...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 748–749.
Published: 01 August 1991
...Craig A. Lockard The Underside of Malaysian History: Pullers, Prostitutes, Plantation Workers . Edited by Peter J. Rimmer and Lisa M. Allen . Singapore : Singapore University Press , 1990 . xiv, 259 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 748...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 129–157.
Published: 01 February 2007
..., whereas others have been marginalized or silenced. Professor Moon examines kijich'on (camptown) prostitution around U.S. military bases in Korea as a case study of how power conflicts within the coalition movement, which are focused on nationalism and gender, have exploited and shut out the very people...
View articletitled, Resurrecting <span class="search-highlight">Prostitutes</span> and Overturning Treaties: Gender Politics in the “Anti-American” Movement in South Korea
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 170–171.
Published: 01 February 1987
...Gail Lee Bernstein The Story of Yamada Waka: From Prostitute to Feminist Pioneer . By Tomoko Yamazaki . Translated by Wakako Hironaka and Ann Konstant . New York : Kodansha International , 1985 . 159 pp. Illustrations. $16.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 539–562.
Published: 01 August 2013
... for prostitutes. However, by the 1880s, both geisha and prostitutes were increasingly denied access to education and excluded from ideals of enlightened femininity that were predicated on marriage. This article considers how a group of unlikely actors deployed the Tokugawa past to become civilized...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 February 1995
... a desk job at the Foreign Office, the unwilling daughter from Suzhou sold into prostitution, the shop apprentice whose family connections brought another kind of indentured service, or the Chinese and foreign sailors “shanghaied” into service on one of the thousands of shipping vessels docked every year...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 777–804.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., cartographies, health regimes, and moral codes. Sex workers were active participants in this process, but their personal testimonies show how their lives defied categorization. When the Diet finally intervened with the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, it was merely the culmination of a long process involving...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 937–958.
Published: 01 November 2013
... save it. Over the course of the 1950s, reading and analyzing resistance in this way led policy makers to redefine “The People” as well as the social place of individuals accused of activities like prostitution, begging, and petty crime. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013...
View articletitled, Thought Reform and the Unreformable: Reeducation Centers and the Rhetoric of Opposition in the Early People's Republic of China
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 333–353.
Published: 01 May 1998
... ratthaban thai pho so 2411–2503” (Prostitution and the Thai Government's policy, 1868–1960). Master's thesis, Department of History, Chulalongkorn University . Darian-Smith Kate , and Hamilton Paula , eds. 1994 . Memory and History in Twentieth-Century Australia . Melbourne : Oxford...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 433–434.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Firpo's latest monograph provides a thoroughly researched account of the black-market sex industry in colonial Tonkin. As of 1921, the French government legalized and regulated prostitution to protect the empire's military troops from venereal diseases. As Firpo argues, the government's surveillance...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 663–668.
Published: 01 May 2002
.... Ali finds it "curious" that I distinguish between temple women and prostitutes. He seems to believe that this distinction is found neither in the Agamas nor in recent ethnographic studies of the devadasts. With reference to the Agamas, a great deal of further research remains to be done...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 794–796.
Published: 01 May 2002
... pageants, and prostitution as key sites that have helped shape Thai notions of gender. Chapter 4 concentrates on how the Thai state has fashioned a modern Thai identity and, in the process, created certain images of Thai women. Van Esterik's discussion of these events shows how women and "heritage sites...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 185–186.
Published: 01 February 2000
... Brothel No. 8: An Episode in the History ofLower-classJapanese Women. By YAMAZAKI T O M O K O . Translated by Karen Colligan-Taylor. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. xliv, 215 pp. $19-95. As a free-lance writer determined to document the lives of karayuki-san (Japanese women sold into prostitution...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 526–535.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Japan ( Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2005 ) . 5
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, “ Japanese Feminism and Commercialized Sex: The Union of Militarism and Prohibitionism ,” Social Science Japan Journal 9 , no. 2 ( 2006 ): 33 – 50
; “ The Prostitutes’ Union and the Impact...
View articletitled, Gendered Japan: Law, Empire, and Modern Girls on the Go - Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium and Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan and Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan's Imperial Body
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (3): 585–612.
Published: 01 August 1996
... Hamilton 1880–1883 . Oxford : Clarendon Press . Ballhatchet Kenneth. 1980 . Race, Sex and Class Under the British Raj: Imperial Attitudes and Policies and their Critics, 1793–1905 . London : Weidenfeld and Nicholson . Banerjee Sumanta. 1993 . “The “Beshya” and the “Babu”: Prostitute...
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