University of Toronto Press
China's Commercial Sexscapes: Rethinking Intimacy, Masculinity, and Criminal Justice
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- Eileen Yuk Tsang
- University of Toronto Press
- Hardcover
- 9781487505882
- 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.7 inches
- 0.9 pounds
- Social Science > Sociology - Marriage & Family
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Exploring the experiences of both male clients and female sex workers, China's Commercial Sexscapes expands upon the complex dynamics of sex worker and client relationships, and places them within the wider implications of expanding globalization and capitalism.
The book is based in large part upon interviews with sex workers and their clients the author conducted while undercover as a bartender in Dongguan, an important industrial city in Guangdong province and an explicit, complicated, and multidimensional setting for study. In the wake of the financial crisis, the purchasing of sex by single, young-adult males has become an increasingly socially acceptable way for men to perform and experience heteronormative masculinity. Investigating human rights, social policy, and the criminal justice system in China, this book applies the concept of edgework to the commercial sex industry in Dongguan to study how men and women interact within the changing global economy.
Author Bio
Holder of PhD in Sociology, a First Class Honors bachelor’s and M. Phil research (research based) master’s degrees in Sociology, teaching license on Liberal Studies and Humanities.
A decade of hands-on experience in research, course coordination and administration of education projects.
I have ample research experience in studying China’s middle class in South China and was recently invited by the Faculty of Social Sciences at Beijing Normal University and Nankai University, Tianjin, to deliver seminars on the middle class, testifying to my growing reputation as a key researcher in the field.
I have been invited to attend some training workshops on Liberal Arts, Liberal Studies for teaching and learning in various universities in Beijing and Guangdong province.
Research Interests
Cultural and political sociology of China’s emerging middle class
Sociology of gender and sexuality
Sociology of consumption and popular culture
Sociology of sex work
Migration, labor, and crime
Awards
2019 “Visiting scholar ” Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, University of Amsterdam .
2016 “Visiting scholar ” Human Trafficking and Social Justice Institute, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA.
Source: City University of Hong Kong and LinkedIn profile
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