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Black market business : selling sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920-1945

"Drawing on hundreds of detailed cases of sex work, this book examines the informal economy for clandestine prostitution that developed in the late colonial period in Vietnam and explores the geographic layout of Tonkin's black market sex industry; the widespread use of unfree labor in the form of debt bondage and human trafficking; the market for adolescent girls; and clandestine prostitution in ả đào singing houses and Western-style dance halls"-- Provided by publisher

eBook, English, 2020
Cornell University Press, Ithaca [New York], 2020