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Among the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the twentieth century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who travelled from China and Japan to work in Singapore as prostitutes. This study sketches in the trade in women and children in Asia, and--making innovative use of Coroner's Inquests and other records--hones in on the details of the prostitutes' lives in the colonial city: the daily brothel routine, crises and violence, social relations, leisure, mobility, disease, and death.
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Ah Ku and Karayuki-San, James Francis Warren
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- 2003
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- Title
- Ah Ku and Karayuki-San
- Subtitle
- Prostitution in Singapore 1880-1940
- Language
- English
- Authors
- James Francis Warren
- Publisher
- Singapore University Press
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 249
- ISBN10
- 9971692678
- ISBN13
- 9789971692674
- Series
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- Among the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the twentieth century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who travelled from China and Japan to work in Singapore as prostitutes. This study sketches in the trade in women and children in Asia, and--making innovative use of Coroner's Inquests and other records--hones in on the details of the prostitutes' lives in the colonial city: the daily brothel routine, crises and violence, social relations, leisure, mobility, disease, and death.