This book explains that prostitution flourished in Singapore because of the massive influx of male migrant laborers without a corresponding increase in women immigrants and that famine in Southeast China and Northwest Kyushu moved many families to sell their young daughters to traffickers. It goes on to describe the two brothel zones set up in Singapore. The V.D. 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 deals with the people and events in the lives of these Chinese and Japanese prostitutes.

Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore 1870-1940 (South-East Asian Social Science Monographs)

History

Warren, James Francis

Asia

Oxford University Press

The Sulu zone, 1768-1898: The dynamics of external trade, slavery, and ethnicity in the transformation of a Southeast Asian maritime state

Singapore University Press

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Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore 1870-1940 (South-East Asian Social Science Monographs)

The Sulu zone, 1768-1898: The dynamics of external trade, slavery, and ethnicity in the transformation of a Southeast Asian maritime state