THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE USSR by Murray Yanowitch ( 9780873324687 )

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Title:

THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE USSR
RECENT SOVIET STUDIES

By:

Murray Yanowitch

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

Pub. date:

1 June, 1986

Pages:

288

Translated from:

Russian

Description:

This is a study of "karayuki-san," impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. It follows the life of one prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to accept cleaning work in Borneo and then forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel.

Synopsis:

This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. It follows the life of one prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to accept cleaning work in Borneo and then forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel.

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M.E. Sharpe

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