Cool masculinity: Male clients' sex consumption and business alliance in urban China's sex industry

Journal of Contemporary China

Volumn 15, Issue 46, 2006, Pages 161-182

  Zheng, Tiantian ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; IDEOLOGY; PROSTITUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 31144459364     PISSN: 10670564     EISSN: 14699400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10670560500331815     Document Type: Article

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1. This research was generously funded by the Yale Center of International Area Studies and the Yale East Asian Council.
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