Lục xì : prostitution and venereal disease in colonial Hanoi

Author

Vũ, Trọng Phụng, 1912-1939.

Title

Lục xì : prostitution and venereal disease in colonial Hanoi / Vũ Trọng Phụng ; translated, with an introduction, by Shaun Kingsley Malarney.

Format

Book

Published

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2011.

Description

x, 176 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Other contributors

Malarney, Shaun Kingsley.

Uniform series

Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• A blemish on the city
• The muse of the dispensary girls
• A few statistics and a little history
• There must be harm
• Strolling inside the dispensary
• The girls' squad
• Women of the book of sorrows
• Medical examination day
• Student and teacher
• The authorities' perspective
• Holding papers
• Tearing up papers.

Kinsey subjects

Prostitution--Vietnam--Hanoi.
Prostitution history--Vietnam--Hanoi.
Prostitution and venereal diseases--Vietnam--Hanoi.
Prostitutes--Vietnam--Hanoi.
Social conditions--Vietnam--Hanoi.

ISBN

9780824834678 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0824834674 (hardcover : alk. paper)