Shanghai Prostitutes
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Gail Hershatter argues that prostitution can be positioned as a lens through which one may gain telling perspectives on the sentiments of the Shanghai population from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. She examines transitions in literary references to prostitutes as potential mirrors on sweeping changes that occurred during this period. While her analysis of the position of prostitutes in relation to social forces paints a fascinating picture of the changing social landscape both for prostitutes and Shanghai society as a whole, she fails to adequately address the contextual location of her s
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