Lust In Translation
December, 2004
These days nearly every type of business in China is big. Name one--phones, cigarettes, cars, petrochemicals, almost anything--and the country's share of it is likely to rank in the top five worldwide. The sex industry is no different. And like so much else in the Chinese economy, it was hardly a business at all before China started experimenting with free markets, beginning in 1978. While in other spheres China often copies the business models of the outside world, its sex trade is uniquely Chi...
