Lục xì : prostitution and venereal disease in colonial Hanoi / by Vũ Trọng Phụng ; translated, with an introduction, by Shaun Kingsley Malarney.

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2011], ©2011.

x, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A blemish on the city -- The muse of the dispensary girls -- A few statistics and a little history -- There must be harm -- Strolling inside the dispensary -- The girls' squad -- Women of the book of sorrows -- Medical examination day -- Student and teacher -- The authorities' perspective -- Holding papers -- Tearing up papers.