"Traces the history of Japan's prewar Manchurian empire over four decades, mapping how South Manchuria ... and especially its principal city, Dairen ... was naturalized as a Japanese space and revealing how this process ultimately contributed to the success of the Japanese army'…
"Traces the history of Japan's prewar Manchurian empire over four decades, mapping how South Manchuria--and especially its principal city, Dairen--was naturalized as a Japanese space and revealing how this process ultimately contributed to the success of the Japanese army's earl…
Offers insights into the community of same-sex-attracted men in the metropolitan city of Dalian in northeast China. Zheng reveals an array of coping mechanisms developed by tongzhi men in response to rapid social, cultural, and political transformations in postsocialist China. U…
Introduction: Masculinity, power, and the Chinese state -- Patriarchy, prostitution, and masculinity in Dalian -- From banquets to karaoke bars : a new sexual awakening -- Fierce rivalries, unstable bonds : class in the karaoke bars -- Turning the grain : sex and the modern man …
Zheng presents a revealing and intimate study of rural Chinese women working in an urban sex trade.