Dealing in Desire Hoang Kimberly Kay
Dealing in Desire Hoang Kimberly Kay This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam's sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Dealing in Desire takes an in-depth and often…
Specifikacia Dealing in Desire Hoang Kimberly Kay
Dealing in Desire Hoang Kimberly Kay
This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam's sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Dealing in Desire takes an in-depth and often personal look at both the sex workers and their clients to show how Vietnamese high finance and benevolent giving are connected to the intimate spheres of the informal economy. Over the course of five years, author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele: wealthy local Vietnamese and Asian businessmen, Viet Kieus (ethnic Vietnamese living abroad), Western businessmen, and Western budget-tourists.
For Viet Kieus and Westerners who For the domestic super-elite who use the levers of political power to channel foreign capital into real estate and manufacturing projects, conspicuous consumption is a means of projecting an image of Asian ascendancy to potential investors.
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