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[oyceter]

Good things about my job:

Someone must have taken some class on the history of Asian-Americans, because they just sold their books to us. The boss was going to turn a few away because they had been slightly highlighted, then noticed I was very interested in one book on Chinese prostitution in early San Francisco, and drew my attention to those. Ha, five dollars! Then employee discount ^_^.

I feel kind of bad that I was an East Asian Studies major and know almost nothing about this stretch of history -- mostly I did Japanese pop culture and ancient Chinese history (and pre-modern Japanese history, 1600-on). Plus, prostitution.

Sexual history/politics really interests me. And it'll be nice to know about this in addition to Japanese hostesses and the geisha and Yoshiwara.

Now I need to find something on Chinese prostitutes/courtesans in pre-modern China!

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[deevalish.livejournal.com]

After looking around a bit, and reading a couple of things on it, I realize now that it's not "A thousand...it's "Thousand". It's by Ruthanne somebody somebody not Yen Mah. And also, because my brain is getitng old, the writing is not stellar. But the story itself is good. The documentary was much better. Nto sure how hard it would be to view it though. Sorry about the misinformation.

[oyceter]

Hee, no problem ^_^. But thanks for the info!