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Luc Xì: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi. by Vũ Trọng Phụng is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 thousands of people and hundreds of businesses. It was the center of the city's nightlife and the source of suffering, violence, exploitation, and a venereal disease epidemic. For Phung, a popular writer and intellectual, it also raised disturbing questions about the state of Vietnamese society and culture and whether his country really was'progressing'under French colonial rule.Translator Shaun Kingsley Malarney's thoughtful and multifaceted introduction provides historical background on colonialism, prostitution, and venereal disease in Vietnam and discusses reportage as a literary genre, political tool, and historical source. A fully annotated translation of Luc Xi follows, in which Phung takes readers into the heart of colonial Hanoi's sex industry, portraying its female workers, the officials who attempted to regulate it, the doctors who treated its victims, and the secretive medical facility known as the Nha Luc Xi ('The Dispensary')

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Author

Vũ Trọng Phụng

Publisher

University of Hawaiʻi Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824871642

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Social Science