TIANTIAN ZHENG is Associate Professor of Sociology/Anthropology at State University of New York, USA, and author of Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China.
发表于2024-05-17
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This is a ethnographic study of the sex workers (hostesses) at the high, middle, and low-tier of different karaoke bars in Dalian, a port city in the northeast of China. The author, Tiantian Zheng, adopts participation observation approach, which "allows re...
评分This is a ethnographic study of the sex workers (hostesses) at the high, middle, and low-tier of different karaoke bars in Dalian, a port city in the northeast of China. The author, Tiantian Zheng, adopts participation observation approach, which "allows re...
评分This is a ethnographic study of the sex workers (hostesses) at the high, middle, and low-tier of different karaoke bars in Dalian, a port city in the northeast of China. The author, Tiantian Zheng, adopts participation observation approach, which "allows re...
评分This is a ethnographic study of the sex workers (hostesses) at the high, middle, and low-tier of different karaoke bars in Dalian, a port city in the northeast of China. The author, Tiantian Zheng, adopts participation observation approach, which "allows re...
评分This is a ethnographic study of the sex workers (hostesses) at the high, middle, and low-tier of different karaoke bars in Dalian, a port city in the northeast of China. The author, Tiantian Zheng, adopts participation observation approach, which "allows re...
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<DIV>In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karaoke hostesses—a career whose name disguises the sex work and minimizes the surprising influence these women often have as power brokers.
Zheng embarked on two years of intensely embedded ethnographic fieldwork in her birthplace, Dalian, a large northeastern Chinese seaport of over six million people. During this time, Zheng lived and worked with a group of hostesses in a karaoke bar, facing many of the same dangers that they did and forming strong, intimate bonds with them. The result is an especially engaging, moving story of young, rural women struggling to find meaning, develop a modern and autonomous identity, and, ultimately, survive within an oppressively patriarchal state system.
Moving from her case studies to broader theories of sex, gender, and power, Zheng connects a growth in capitalist entrepreneurialism to the emergence of an urban sex industry, brilliantly illuminating the ways in which hostesses, their clients, and the state are mutually created in postsocialist China.
Fascinating and nuanced accounts of sex workers' lives in China, but at time the author tend to overanalyse, probably because of the academic nature of the piece and the pressure to come up with new theories. Would have been more enjoyable if the author had adopted a more journalistic approach.
评分是一本向西方读者介绍中国的普识书。对于部分观点持保留态度。作者常常通过对于中文语词以及话语的再解释来置于讨论背景之中。关于”精液“与”交公粮“的内容不敢苟同。同时关于大连足球运动为什么发达的原因探讨貌似偏离民族志主体。
评分对现实的详细记录是值得赞扬的,但是书中的深层分析并不是很贴切,并且作者很明显是带着个人偏见去分析这一课题的。
评分是一本向西方读者介绍中国的普识书。对于部分观点持保留态度。作者常常通过对于中文语词以及话语的再解释来置于讨论背景之中。关于”精液“与”交公粮“的内容不敢苟同。同时关于大连足球运动为什么发达的原因探讨貌似偏离民族志主体。
评分妻子通过要求多行房事让丈夫无力再找小姐,所以说男性就是一个供妻子和小姐竞争的精子机器?——这么简洁直观的生物学解释真让人大开眼界
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