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Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
Dr. Zheng will talk on sex workers in China at UC Berkeley.
When:
February 23, 2011 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Where
In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural–urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In her book, Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karaoke hostesses.
Phone Number:
510-642-2809
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