Introduction: prostitution and sexuality: a historiographical review
1. The courtesans from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries: the end of a world
2. Lives of splendor and wretchedness
3. From the high class brothel to mass sexuality: the explosion of common prostitution from 1849 to 1949
4. The ancillary forms of prostitution
5. The prostitutes in the twentieth century: an essay in social anthropology
6. Sex, suffering and violence
7. The female market in Shanghai and China
8. The houses of prostitution in the urban space
9. The organization and management of the houses of prostitution
10.The economy of sex
11. Disease prevention and the policing of morality
12. The abolitionist movement in Shanghai (1915-1925)
13. The Nationalists and regulationism Chinese style (1927-1949)
14. The institutions for the rescue of the prostitutes (1880-1949)
Conclusion.
