China has long taken a punitive approach to sex work, but sex workers in China have recently experienced the harshest crackdown in a decade. The “strike hard” campaigns which began in Beijing and Dongguan in 2010 and 2014 respectively, ultimately spawning a nationwide crackdown. These campaigns led to the shutdown of thousands of entertainment venues and the detention of tens of thousands of sex workers.

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