China Daily: Japanese prostitute's job application found in China
An antique collector in northern China's Hebei Province says he's recently gained a piece of special collection of high value, a Japanese girl's application paper for becoming a prostitute, submitted in 1921...The application paper, printed in the original complex form of simplified Chinese characters, consists of two parts for the applicant and her insurer respectively. The 21-year old Japanese girl gave her name, age, nationality, address and explained her reason for becoming a prostitute - poverty, with the announcement that she had volunteered to do so. On the other hand, the insurer also signed her name to guarantee that the applicant would observe the law and regulations. The paper would be submitted to the then-Tianjin police station before being further transferred to the Tianjin government during the rein of the Republic of China between 1912 and 1949...He claims the paper has a value of collection since it tells of the social climate in the prosperous port city of Tianjin under which prostitution was officially allowed, before the founding of new China.
