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This monograph demonstrates how prostitution flourished in Singapore due to the massive influx of male migrant labourers without a corresponding increase in women immigrants. Another reason was the famine in south-east China and north-west Kyushu, which moved many families to sell their young daughters to traffickers. It describes the two brothel zones set up in Singapore. The VD epidemic that struck following the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, as a result of agitation by Victorian moralists in England, is highlighted. The second part of the text deals with events in the lives of these Chinese and Japanese prostitutes.

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Through his imaginative use of coroner's records, photographs, and oral histories, Warren has succeeded...in shaping a social history that illuminates the role of Chinese and Japanese prosititutes in the history of Singa pore. --Choice, April 1994<br>

Through his imaginative use of coroner's records, photographs, and oral histories, Warren has succeeded...in shaping a social history that illuminates the role of Chinese and Japanese prosititutes in the history of Singa pore.--Choice, April 1994

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