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Researching Genocide and Modern Slavery in Asia and the Pacific: China

Research guide on trafficking of women in China

Sources

Books

Chin, Ko-lin, and James O Finckenauer. Selling Sex Overseas : Chinese Women and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Liu, Min. Migration, Prostitution, and Human Trafficking: The Voice of Chinese Women. 1st ed. Piscataway: Routledge, 2011.

Jaivin, Linda, et al. Chains. 1st ed., ANU Press, 2023, https://doi.org/10.22459/CSY.2023.

Ransmeier, Johanna S. Sold People : Traffickers and Family Life in North China. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017.

Webb, Carter M, and Paul W Dobrev. Organized Crime, Gangs and Trafficking. Hauppauge: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2011.

王金玲. 中国拐卖拐骗人口问题研究 = Study on human trafficking in China. 北京: 社会科学文献出版社, 2014. [In Chinese]


Book chapters

Shuai, Honglan, and Jianhong Liu. “Human Trafficking in China.” In The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking, 1241–1253. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.


Dissertations

Shih, Elena. “The Price of Freedom: Moral and Political Economies of the Global Anti-Trafficking Movement”. eScholarship, University of California, 2015.


Peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations, etc.

Chu, Cindy Yik-Yi . “Human Trafficking and Smuggling in China.” The Journal of contemporary China 20, no. 68 (2011): 39–52.

Jiang, Quanbao, Jesus J, and Sanchez-Barricarte. “Trafficking in Women in China.” Asian women (Seoul, Korea) 27, no. 3 (2011): 83–111.

Ling, Bonny. “Human Trafficking and China: Challenges of Domestic Criminalisation and Interpretation.” Asia-Pacific journal on human rights and the law 17, no. 1 (2016): 148–177.

Ling, Bonny. “Prostitution and Female Trafficking in China: Between Phenomena and Discourse.” China perspectives 2018, no. 1/2 (2018): 65–74.

Martínez García, Ana Belén. “Denouncing Human Trafficking in China: North Korean Women’s Memoirs as Evidence.” State crime 8, no. 1 (2019): 59–79.

Mei, Shuqin. “Trafficking North Korean Women into China for Forced Marriage: Evidence from Court Judgments.” Crime, law, and social change 81, no. 3 (2024): 321–342.

Shen, Anqi, Georgios A Antonopoulos, and Georgios Papanicolaou. “China’s Stolen Children: Internal Child Trafficking in the People’s Republic of China.” Trends in organized crime 16, no. 1 (2012): 31–48.

Shen, Anqi. “Female Perpetrators in Internal Child Trafficking in China: An Empirical Study.” Journal of human trafficking 2, no. 1 (2016): 63–77.

Shih, Elena. “The Price of Freedom: Moral and Political Economies of the Global Anti-Trafficking Movement”. eScholarship, University of California, 2015.

Xia, Yiwei, et al. “Mapping Trafficking of Women in China: Evidence from Court Sentences.” The Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 29, no. 122, 2020, pp. 238–52, https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2019.1637564.

Xiong, Wanru. “Does the Shortage of Marriageable Women Induce the Trafficking of Women for Forced Marriage? Evidence From China.” Violence against women 28, no. 6–7 (2022): 1441–1463.

* Yang, Songcai, Ling Han, and Yingxi Bi. “Child Trafficking in the Yunnan and Guangdong Provinces of China.” The international journal of human rights 25, no. 4 (2021): 718–742. 

Yao, Yao, Yifei Liu, Qingfeng Guan, Ye Hong, Ruifan Wang, Ruoyu Wang, and Xun Liang. “Spatiotemporal Distribution of Human Trafficking in China and Predicting the Locations of Missing Persons.” Computers, environment and urban systems 85 (2021).

Zhao, Gracie Ming. “Trafficking of Women for Marriage in China: Policy and Practice.” Criminal justice (London, England : 2001) 3, no. 1 (2003): 83–102.


Legal Analyses

Lin, Ronald Joseph. “From Tradition to Trafficking – Modern China’s Bold Fight Against Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery in the Middle Kingdom.” Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization (2019).

Human Trafficking Laws: Legal Provisions for Victims : Comparing Legal Definitions & Frameworks Against the United Nations Protocol on Human Trafficking : Cambodia, Republic People’s of China, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Bangkok: United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking, 2009.

* Kagan, Sophia. “Labour Trafficking in China: Analysis and Recommendations.” The International journal of comparative labour law and industrial relations 29, no. 3 (2013): 259–282.

Lin, Ronald Joseph. “From Tradition to Trafficking – Modern China’s Bold Fight Against Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery in the Middle Kingdom.” Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization (2019).

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