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 | Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (Philip E.Lilienthal Books) (Updated Edition) by Gail Hershatter Paperback, 591 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-520-20439-5 / 0520204395 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20439-3 / 9780520204393 This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declassé elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. Yet they were central figures in Sh | |