TY - BOOK ID - 78087177 TI - Regulating prostitution in China PY - 2014 SN - 9780804788366 9780804790833 0804790833 0804788367 PB - Stanford, California DB - UniCat KW - Local government KW - Prostitution KW - Sex role KW - S06/0205 KW - S11/0710 KW - S11/0743 KW - Gender role KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Sex differences (Psychology) KW - Social role KW - Gender expression KW - Sexism KW - Female prostitution KW - Hustling (Prostitution) KW - Prostitution, Female KW - Sex trade (Prostitution) KW - Sex work (Prostitution) KW - Street prostitution KW - Trade, Sex (Prostitution) KW - White slave traffic KW - White slavery KW - Work, Sex (Prostitution) KW - Sex-oriented businesses KW - Brothels KW - Pimps KW - Procuresses KW - Red-light districts KW - Sex crimes KW - Local administration KW - Township government KW - Subnational governments KW - Administrative and political divisions KW - Decentralization in government KW - Public administration KW - History KW - Government policy KW - China: Politics and government--Government and political institutions: Qing KW - China: Social sciences--Women and gender: general and before 1949 KW - China: Social sciences--Prostitution KW - Gender roles KW - Gendered role KW - Gendered roles KW - Role, Gender KW - Role, Gendered KW - Role, Sex KW - Roles, Gender KW - Roles, Gendered KW - Roles, Sex KW - Sex roles KW - Sex work UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78087177 AB - In the early decades of the twentieth century, prostitution was one of only a few fates available to women and girls besides wife, servant, or factory worker. At the turn of the century, cities across China began to register, tax, and monitor prostitutes, taking different forms in different cities. Intervention by way of prostitution regulation connected the local state, politics, and gender relations in important new ways. The decisions that local governments made about how to deal with gender, and specifically the thorny issue of prostitution, had concrete and measurable effects on the ER -