Scully, Eileen P., “Prostitution As Privilege: the "American Girl" of Treaty-Port Shanghai, 1860-1937” (1998)

Title : “Prostitution As Privilege: the "American Girl" of Treaty-Port Shanghai, 1860-1937”

Author(s) : Scully, Eileen P.

Year : 1998

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : social;foreigners

Journal : International History Review

Volume : 20

Number : 4

Start page : 855

End page : 883

Language:Name : English

Support : Print

Abstract : Women from the United States and Western Europe who worked as prostitutes were able to enjoy privileged status among sex workers in the treaty ports of 19th- and early-20th-century China. While Western reformers voiced sympathy for Asian and White Russian prostitutes, these "American girls" were condemned as a threat to Western cultural superiority. Appendix provides list of European and American prostitutes.