' … is a rich addition to the field'. The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Introduction: prostitution and sexuality: a historiographical review; 1. The courtesans from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries: the end of a world; 2. Lives of splendor and wretchedness; 3. From the high class brothel to mass sexuality: the explosion of common prostitution from 1849 to 1949; 4. The ancillary forms of prostitution; 5. The prostitutes in the twentieth century: an essay in social anthropology; 6. Sex, suffering and violence; 7. The female market in Shanghai and China; 8. The houses of prostitution in the urban space; 9. The organization and management of the houses of prostitution; 10.The economy of sex; 11. Disease prevention and the policing of morality; 12. The abolitionist movement in Shanghai (1915–1925); 13. The Nationalists and regulationism Chinese style (1927–1949); 14. The institutions for the rescue of the prostitutes (1880–1949); Conclusion.

' … is a rich addition to the field'. The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Introduction: prostitution and sexuality: a historiographical review; 1. The courtesans from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries: the end of a world; 2. Lives of splendor and wretchedness; 3. From the high class brothel to mass sexuality: the explosion of common prostitution from 1849 to 1949; 4. The ancillary forms of prostitution; 5. The prostitutes in the twentieth century: an essay in social anthropology; 6. Sex, suffering and violence; 7. The female market in Shanghai and China; 8. The houses of prostitution in the urban space; 9. The organization and management of the houses of prostitution; 10.The economy of sex; 11. Disease prevention and the policing of morality; 12. The abolitionist movement in Shanghai (1915–1925); 13. The Nationalists and regulationism Chinese style (1927–1949); 14. The institutions for the rescue of the prostitutes (1880–1949); Conclusion.

' … is a rich addition to the field'. The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Introduction: prostitution and sexuality: a historiographical review; 1. The courtesans from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries: the end of a world; 2. Lives of splendor and wretchedness; 3. From the high class brothel to mass sexuality: the explosion of common prostitution from 1849 to 1949; 4. The ancillary forms of prostitution; 5. The prostitutes in the twentieth century: an essay in social anthropology; 6. Sex, suffering and violence; 7. The female market in Shanghai and China; 8. The houses of prostitution in the urban space; 9. The organization and management of the houses of prostitution; 10.The economy of sex; 11. Disease prevention and the policing of morality; 12. The abolitionist movement in Shanghai (1915–1925); 13. The Nationalists and regulationism Chinese style (1927–1949); 14. The institutions for the rescue of the prostitutes (1880–1949); Conclusion.