Sealing Cheng

On the Move for Love

Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea

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Produktbeschreibung

Sealing Cheng is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780812222777
• ISBN-10: 0812222776
• Artikelnr.: 38137811

Autorenporträt

Sealing Cheng is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Angel Club
PART I. SETTING THE STAGE
Chapter 1. Sexing the Globe
PART II. LABORERS OF LOVE
Vignette I. A Gijichon Tour in 2000
Chapter 2. "Foreign" and "Fallen" in South Korea
Chapter 3. Women Who Hope
PART III. TRANSNATIONAL WOMEN FROM BELOW
Vignette II. A Day in Gijichon, December 1999
Chapter 4. The Club Regime and Club-Girl Power
Chapter 5. Love "between My Heart and My Head"
PART IV. HOME IS WHERE ONE IS NOT
Vignette III. Disparate Paths: The Migrant Woman and the NGO
Chapter 6. At Home in Exile
Chapter 7. "Giving Value to the Voices"
Chapter 8. Hop, Leap, and Swerve—or Hope in Motion
Appendices
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments