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China, Sex and Prostitution is a topical and important critique of recent scholarship in China studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing. Jeffrey's arguments are constructed in the form of detailed analysis of a wide range of primary texts, including documents, press reports, police report, and policy and legal pronouncements, and secondary literature in both English and Chinese. The work engages with some key debates in the fields of cultural and gender studies and will be welcomed by scholars in these areas as well as by China specialists, sociologists and anthropologists

1. Prostitution, policing and the media in reform-era China -- 2. Forced prostitution : China's contemporary chastity heroes -- 3. Youth prostitution : China's growing sex market -- 4. Male-male prostitution : China's first same-sex prostitution case -- 5. Penalising buyers of sex : China's 'whoring professor' case -- 6. Exposing police corruption : China's virgin prostitute cases -- 7. Questioning police powers : China's prostitution parade -- 8. Regulating prostitution : China's 100 per cent condom use program -- 9. Concluding remarks.

Prostitution Scandals in China presents an examination of media coverage of prostitution-related scandals in contemporary China. It demonstrates that the subject of prostitution is not only widely debated, but also that these public discussions have ramifications for some of the key social, legal and political issues affecting citizens of the PRC. Further, this book shows how these public discussions impact on issues as diverse as sexual exploitation, civil rights, government corruption, child and youth protection, policing abuses, and public health.In this book Elaine Jeffr.

Introduction: talking sex and sexuality in China / Elaine Jeffreys -- 1. Transformations in the primary life cycle: the origins and nature of China's sexual revolution / Pan Suiming -- 2. Sex, politics and the policing of virtue in the People's Republic of China / Gary Sigley -- 3. Contesting citizenship: marriage and divorce in the People's Republic of China / Margaret Y.K. Woo -- 4. Regulating male same-sex relationships in the People's Republic of China / Li Yinhe -- 5. Sexual citizenship and the politics of sexual storytelling among Chinese youth / James Farrer -- 6. Selling sexual health: China's emerging sex shop industry / Jo McMillan -- 7. Female sex sellers and the public policy in the People's Republic of China / Zhang Heqing -- 8. Debating the legal regulation of sex-related bribery and corruption in the People's Republic of China / Elaine Jeffreys -- Index

Contributes to emerging studies of governmentality in non-western and non-liberal settings, by showing how neoliberal discourses on governance, development, education, the environment, community, religion, and sexual health, have been raised in other contexts. This book opens discussions of governmentality to 'other worlds' and the global politics of the present.

China, Sex and Prostitution is a topical and important critique of recent scholarship in China Studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing.

This article examines prostitution-related police corruption and malfeasance in the People's Republic of China during the early to mid 2000s, as exemplified by the story of Ma Dandan and six other "virgin prostitute cases" (chunü maiyin an). The media controversy surrounding these cases raises questions about China's proclaimed reform-era adoption of a "rule of law". China's prostitution controls, especially police-led campaigns against prostitution, are criticized by both domestic and international commentators for highlighting the "Party-state's" instrumental view of law as a "weapon" that not only empowers police enforcement activities, but also demonstrates, through the associated problems of corruption and malfeasance, that police officials, unlike ordinary citizens, are "above and beyond the law". An analysis of the virgin prostitute cases and the changing body of prostitution law suggests that, in introducing more lenient and regularized prostitution controls and stricter controls over the exercise of police powers, China is at least sensitive to such arguments. Recent legal changes have placed new limits on the potential for police corruption and malfeasance, and offer better protection of the citizen rights of those apprehended as minor prostitution offenders. (China J/GIGA)

This article examines media publicity surrounding the case of Li Ning-a 34-year-old native of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, who made legal history in the People's Republic of China (PRC) on 17 October 2004 when he was sentenced to eight years jail and fined 60,000 yuan for organizing male-male prostitution services in a recreational business enterprise. Reportedly the first conviction of its kind, the case proved to be controversial for three reasons. First, it prompted legal debate over the nature of China's recent shift to a "rule of law" and associated conceptions of due legal process and individual and sexual rights. Second, it intimated that homosocial prostitution-male-male prostitution in which neither participant may self-identify as homosexual - is an integral but frequently neglected component of China's burgeoning, albeit banned, sex industry. Finally, it raised questions regarding the perceived appropriate parameters of same-sex sexual conduct in a country facing rapidly increasing rates of HIV/AIDS infection. An examination of media coverage of these concerns suggests that accusations of official homophobia in the PRC are overstated: they elide the specificity of debates on homosexuality in present-day China due to their overarching concern with Western understandings of sexuality as constitutive of selfhood and (rightful) sociopolitical identity. (Crit Asian Stud/GIGA)