Lục Xì: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi

by Vũ Trọng Phụng

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 thousands of people and hundreds of businesses. It was the center of the city's nightlife and the source of suffering, violence, exploitation, and a venereal disease epidemic. For Phung, a popular writer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824834674
• ISBN13: 9780824834678
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"