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Reviews / Nan Nü 13 (2011) 348-368 361 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/156852611X602683 Paola Zamperini. Lost Bodies: Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction . Leiden: Brill, 2010. xii + 238 pp. US$133.00/€93.00. ISBN 978-90-04-1798-3. Paola Zamperini’s book Lost Bodies: Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction off ers a very welcome, timely and important contribution to the scholarship on prostitution, courtesan culture, gender studies and literature in late imperial China. is book is a revised version of Zamperini’s University of California at Berkeley 1999 Ph.D. thesis, and the third volume of the new ‘Women and Gen- der in China Studies’ series edited by Grace S. Fong for Brill publishers, testifying to the ever-growing interest in scholarship on women and gender issues in Chi- nese Studies. Lost Bodies complements earlier seminal studies such as Sue Grone- wald’s Beautiful Merchandise: Prostitution in China, 1860-1936 (1985), Gail Hershatter’s Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (1997), Christian Henriot’s Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849-1949 (2001), and Catherine Yeh’s Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850-1910 (2006). Lost Bodies adds to these historical, sociological and cultural studies by focusing on literary represen- tations of
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Published: Jan 1, 2011
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