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21 " collective rise of multiple countries within pan-Asia that has destabilized Western hegemony. "
― , Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
22 " Concomitant "
23 " Vietnam, like other smaller countries in the region, gained a platform to articulate new national ideals that challenge common representations of poverty in the Global South and the latter’s oppressed relation to the West; "
24 " economic practices take place in a complicated web of social relationships, which change in degree and form over time. "
25 " FDI is embodied in entrepreneurial relations that are largely male dominated and heavily influenced by existing practices established in China, Japan, and South Korea, where men rely heavily on the sex industry to facilitate informal social relations of trust as foreign investors embed themselves in the local economy. "
26 " the sex industry plays a vital role in establishing social contracts for state entrepreneurs with political capital to strike deals with private entrepreneurs and foreign investors. "
27 " Western men engaged in relationships with local sex workers to mitigate their sense of Western decline through practices of benevolent Western patriarchy. "
28 " Entrepreneurial men used sex buying to establish personal ties facilitating their access to the means of production and exchange in an "
29 " economy that was moving from central command to one that depended on” the brokering of relations between state officials, foreign investors, and private entrepreneurs. "
30 " this book also examines how overseas Vietnamese men and Westerners simultaneously negotiate perceptions of Asia’s rise and Western decline while recuperating their failed masculinity and marriages through personal relationships with local sex workers. "