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.
<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.
發表於2025-02-08
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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...
評分總體而言,這本書的價值在民族誌敘事(十幾二十年前的狀況),但分析解釋和理論部分並不怎麼樣。所以主要看裏麵的敘事和故事就好,當然一些撕逼和愛恨情仇點還是很有趣的。另外覺得作者在寫書時其實在轉嫁自己情感。作者似乎想把性工作者描述成瞭同男權與不公正的社會做...
評分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...
評分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...
評分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...
圖書標籤: 人類學 鄭田田 女性主義 Anthropology ChineseEthnography 中國 民族誌 Prostitution
是一本嚮西方讀者介紹中國的普識書。對於部分觀點持保留態度。作者常常通過對於中文語詞以及話語的再解釋來置於討論背景之中。關於”精液“與”交公糧“的內容不敢苟同。同時關於大連足球運動為什麼發達的原因探討貌似偏離民族誌主體。
評分作者是耶魯女博士,大連本地人。多年暗訪大連ktv性工作者。此書為三四年間的工作匯總。"people will laugh at your poverty, but not your prostitution.""remeber, any means is justified as long as you can earn money."
評分三星半,主要看素材,和同類話題的《dealing in desire》比起來差太多
評分七分,無功無過,不溫不火。
評分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.
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