Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849-1949Shanghai'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, from the sophisticated life of the courtesan, to the common life of street prostitution. He examines the extent to which these worlds were integral to Chinese social life, commercial trends, and Chinese mores and sexuality. Henriot draws a picture of a sector that was sensitive to economic and social change, and thus a good reflection of Shanghai's changing social structure, societal attitudes, and commercial development. |
Contents
1 The circulation of money in the houses | 5 |
Prostitutes to the Elite and | 19 |
Tables | 27 |
Plates | 39 |
A brawl in a brothel | 69 |
Fuzhou Road | 94 |
1 Record of sentences handed out to prostitutes | 96 |
to 1949 | 102 |
13 Institutions sending girls for admission to the Anti | 197 |
The Walled City in the midnineteenth century | 205 |
The areas of prostitution in the French Concession | 211 |
Distribution and numbers of changsan in | 217 |
The Organization and Management of | 226 |
197 | 230 |
The Economy of Sex | 248 |
1 Changes in the cost of licenses for the houses | 251 |
taxi dancers in 1946 | 108 |
4 | 113 |
1 Approximate numbers of prostitutes 18751948 | 120 |
6 The causes of entry into prostitution | 127 |
7 Reasons for leaving prostitution | 133 |
Sex Suffering and Violence | 138 |
1 Record of venereal diseases treated in | 143 |
3 Prevalence of venereal disease among prostitutes | 149 |
A courtesan being attacked in the street | 157 |
7 | 165 |
1 Number of sentences for abduction of women in | 168 |
4 Native province of 29 traffickers arrested | 174 |
Maps | 180 |
10 | 183 |
Disease Prevention and the Policing of Morality | 281 |
The Abolitionist Movement in Shanghai | 291 |
The Nationalists and Regulationism Chinese | 312 |
Institutions for the Rescue of the Prostitutes | 334 |
1 Fate of the inmates of the Door of Hope | 344 |
Notes | 363 |
Figures | 382 |
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Common terms and phrases
abduction activity Annual Report brothels Cantonese changji changsan Chinese authorities Chinese municipality Compte rendu Concession française courtesans customers dance halls Door of Hope elites especially establishments forms French Concession fu ru zonghui Fuzhou Road gestion pour l'exercice girls Haishang juewusheng pseudonym Haizou yeyou lu Hangzhou houses of prostitution huajie shi huayanjian International Settlement Jiangnan Jiangsu Jinü de shenghuo jiuji fu ru large number League of Nations madam Municipality of Shanghai nian lai huajie nineteenth century Ningbo number of prostitutes organized patronized Police Archives Police Bureau prosti prostitution in Shanghai Road sexual Shanghai changji Shanghai lanyou zhinan Shanghai liushi nian Shanghai Municipal Council Shanghai shenmi zhinan Shanghai shi Shanghai zhinan Shen Bao shuyu social society sources Suzhou syphilis taxi dancers tesans tion titution trade traffic in women twentieth century venereal disease Wang Jimen Wang Tao wu bai yao'er yeji yuan Zhejiang Zhongguo jiuji fu
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