Culture and privilege in capitalist Asia
edited by Michael Pinches.
Bok Engelsk 1999 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | London ; New York : : Routledge, , 1999.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (330 p.)
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| Opplysninger | "This book is a project of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Western Australia"--T.p.. - Preliminaries; Contents; Tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Cultural relations, class and the new rich of Asia; 2 Consumption, social differentiation and self-definition of the new rich in industrialising Southeast Asia; 3 From Orang Kaya Baru to Melayu Baru; 4 The contribution of a Japanese firm to the cultural construction of the new rich in Malaysi; 5 Singapore: where the new middle class sets the standard; 6 The years of living luxuriously; 7 The new rich and cultural tensions in rural Indonesia; 8 How a revolution becomes a dinner party. - 9 Creating the Thai middle class10 The state, globalisation and Indian middle-class identity; 11 Entrepreneurship, consumption, ethnicity and national identity in the making of the Philippines' new rich; Index;. - Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia shows that the cultural reconfiguration of domestic and international relations around Asias new rich has often been characterised by tension and division.
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| ISBN | 0415197635. - 0415197643
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