Firpo, Christina Elizabeth, <br/><br/>
Black market business :  selling sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920-1945 / 
Christina Elizabeth Firpo. 
 - Ithaca [New York] :  Cornell University Press,  (c)2020. 
 - 1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) :  illustrations, maps. 
 - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>The geography of vice: spatial dimensions of clandestine sex work --  Venereal disease: policing the sources of infection --  Unfree labor: debt bondage and human trafficking --  Girls for sale: juvenile prostitution --  Đào singers: new ways to police female performance art --  Taxi dancers: Western culture and the urban-rural divide. 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781501752674 9781501752667 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020011450 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Prostitution--Vietnam, Northern--20th century.<br/>Prostitution--Law and legislation--Vietnam, Northern--20th century.<br/>Human trafficking--Vietnam, Northern--20th century.<br/>Women--Social conditions--Vietnam, Northern--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ242  / .B533 2020