Luc Xi: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi by Vũ Trọng Phụng, Shaun Kingsley Malarney

Luc Xi: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi

Vũ Trọng Phụng, Shaun Kingsley Malarney

192 pages • first pub 1937 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced
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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 ...

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