Ah-Ku and Karayuki-San: Prostitution in Singapore 1880-1940 Cengage Learning EMEA He landed in the streets

He landed in the streets

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humorous approach to solving relationship problems--from the lingering dirty socks in the bedroom to the bigger issues like children

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Ah-Ku and Karayuki-San: Prostitution in Singapore 1880-1940 Cengage Learning EMEA He landed in the streetsAmong the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the twentieth century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who traveled from China and Japan to work in Singapore as prostitutes. This study sketches the trade in women and children in Asia, and focuses on the details of the prostitutes' lives in the colonial city: the daily brothel routine, crises and violence, social relations, leisure, mobility, disease, and death.