Lục Xì: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi by Vu Trong Phung

Lục Xì: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi

Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory

Vu Trong Phung with Shaun Kingsley Malarney (Translator)

192 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative reflective slow-paced
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What does it mean when a city of 180,000 people has more than 5,000 women working as prostitutes? This question frames Vu Trong Phung's 1937 classic reportage Luc Xi. In the late 1930s, Hanoi had a burgeoning commercial sex industry that involved ...

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