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Nightclubs emerged in the post-Mao era following the initiation of economic liberalization. Although the consumption of sexual services of hostesses is illegal and subject to different degrees of harassment by local police, the patrons claim that their engagement in sex consumption represents their weapon against the socialist morality and socialist state. In my own analysis, I illustrate how sex consumption is a criterion to evaluate one another's deference, reliability, self-control, and sexual potency. Sex consumption becomes a business ritual for conducting the pre-selection of, and bonding with, potential partners to reach mutual trust in their social alliance in the current Chinese state-clientelism. (J Contemp China/DÜI)

This volume is the result of the many years the authors have spent conducting ethnographic field research with sex workers, conversing with other researchers, and, perhaps most importantly, developing a deep sense of empathy for the sex worker participants in the research as well as the colleagues who carry out this work with the goal of advancing social justice. They have a combined total of twenty-five years' experience carrying out research with sex workers, and this extensive period of time has given them ample opportunity to reflect upon the topic of ethics. Sex work, defined as the excha.

En analysant le débat animé entre l'État chinois d'une part et l'alliance formée par les «réalistes » de la santé et les fabricants de préservatifs de l'autre, cet article cherche à montrer que, si l'État ne joue pas un rôle dynamique dans la promotion du préservatif, les campagnes publicitaires pour convaincre et donner les moyens à la population de se protéger efficacement contre le virus du SIDA ne produiront pas l'effet escompté. L'attitude de l'État chinois vis-à-vis de ce moyen de prévention entrave la lutte contre l'épidémie.