Over my dead body! Media constructions of forced prostitution in the People's Republic of China

Jeffreys, E

Over my dead body! Media constructions of forced prostitution in the People's Republic of China

Jeffreys, E

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Publisher:: UTSePress
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies: Women in Asia Special Issue, 2006, 3 (2), pp. 1 - 27
Issue Date:: 2006-01

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dc.contributor.author	Jeffreys, E https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8269-7080	en_US
dc.date.issued	2006-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies: Women in Asia Special Issue, 2006, 3 (2), pp. 1 - 27	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1449-2490	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	This paper examines some of the tensions surrounding the PRCs official policy of banning prostitution by focusing on two highly publicized cases of deceptive recruiting for sexual servicesthe `Tang Shengli Incident and the `Liu Yanhua Incident. Both cases involve young rural women who had migrated from their native homes to other more economically developed parts of China to look for work. Both were forced to sell sex and both resisted. However, whereas Tang Shengli jumped from a building rather than be forced into prostitution, Liu Yanhua escaped from conditions akin to sexual servitude by stabbing her `employer. An examination of these cases highlights some of the problems associated with efforts by the Chinese womens media to promote and protect womens rights in a country marked by rapid, yet unequal, economic growth and an expanding, albeit banned, sex industry.	en_US
dc.publisher	UTSePress	en_US
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dc.title	Over my dead body! Media constructions of forced prostitution in the People's Republic of China	en_US
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Abstract:

This paper examines some of the tensions surrounding the PRCs official policy of banning prostitution by focusing on two highly publicized cases of deceptive recruiting for sexual servicesthe `Tang Shengli Incident and the `Liu Yanhua Incident. Both cases involve young rural women who had migrated from their native homes to other more economically developed parts of China to look for work. Both were forced to sell sex and both resisted. However, whereas Tang Shengli jumped from a building rather than be forced into prostitution, Liu Yanhua escaped from conditions akin to sexual servitude by stabbing her `employer. An examination of these cases highlights some of the problems associated with efforts by the Chinese womens media to promote and protect womens rights in a country marked by rapid, yet unequal, economic growth and an expanding, albeit banned, sex industry.

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