Dangerous Pleasures

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Dangerous Pleasures is written by Gail Hershatter and published by Univ of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520204395 (ISBN 10) and 9780520204393 (ISBN 13).

In the past decade, as prostitution once again has become a recognized feature of Chinese society, it has been incorporated into a larger public discussion about what kind of modernity China should seek and what kind of sex and gender arrangements should characterize that modernity. Prostitutes, like every other non-elite group, did not record their own lives.