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Vũ Trọng Phụng and the Background to Lục Xì Vũ Trọng Phụng and the Background to Lục Xì
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The Dispensary and its Role in Colonial Hanoi The Dispensary and its Role in Colonial Hanoi
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The Service Des Moeurs and the Geography of Commercial Sex in Colonial Hanoi The Service Des Moeurs and the Geography of Commercial Sex in Colonial Hanoi
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Abuse and the Imminent Dangers of the Municipal Dispensary and the Service Des Moeurs Abuse and the Imminent Dangers of the Municipal Dispensary and the Service Des Moeurs
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Filth, Moral Failure, and the Sex Industry Filth, Moral Failure, and the Sex Industry
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Poverty and Prostitution in Colonial Hanoi Poverty and Prostitution in Colonial Hanoi
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Ignorance and the Physical Costs of Prostitution and Venereal Disease Ignorance and the Physical Costs of Prostitution and Venereal Disease
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Introduction: Vũ Trọng Phụng and the Anxieties of “Progress”
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Published:November 2010
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Abstract
This introductory chapter provides a background of prostitution and venereal disease in colonial Hanoi. By the late 1930s, the city of Hanoi—which had by that point been under French colonial control for over fifty years—had a vast commercial sex industry. According to contemporary estimates, the city of some 180,000 people had 5,000 women working as prostitutes. As such, Hanoi also had high rates of infection for venereal disease, which exacted a painful and sometimes deadly toll on men and women, young and old, European and Vietnamese. In writer Vũ Trọng Phụng's analysis of prostitution and venereal disease, he compellingly makes the case that the social problems that they both represented and generated were themselves symptoms of much deeper problems that had been developing in colonial Vietnamese society and that challenged the notion that Vietnam was progressing under colonial rule.
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