Lục xì : prostitution and venereal disease in colonial Hanoi
- Author
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Vũ, Trọng Phụng, 1912-1939.
- Title
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Lục xì : prostitution and venereal disease in colonial Hanoi / Vũ Trọng Phụng ; translated, with an introduction, by Shaun Kingsley Malarney.
- Format
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Book
- Published
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Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2011.
- Description
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x, 176 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Other contributors
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Malarney, Shaun Kingsley.
- Uniform series
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Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 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
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Prostitution--Vietnam--Hanoi.
Prostitution history--Vietnam--Hanoi.
Prostitution and venereal diseases--Vietnam--Hanoi.
Prostitutes--Vietnam--Hanoi.
Social conditions--Vietnam--Hanoi.
- ISBN
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9780824834678 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0824834674 (hardcover : alk. paper)