ISBN:
9780415197632
,
0415197643
,
0415197635
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (330 p)
Series Statement:
New rich in Asia series
Series Statement:
New Rich in Asia
Parallel Title:
Print version Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia
DDC:
305.5234095
Keywords:
Social conditions
;
Elite (Social sciences)
;
Capitalism Social aspects
;
Middle class
;
Social change
;
Social conditions
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Social change ; Asia
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Elite (Social sciences) ; Asia
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Capitalism ; Social aspects ; Asia
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Asia ; Economic conditions ; 1945-
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Middle class ; Asia
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Electronic books
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Asia Economic conditions 1945-
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈I〉Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia〈/I〉 shows that the cultural reconfiguration of domestic and international relations around Asias new rich has often been characterised by tension and division
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Cultural relations, class and the new rich of Asia
,
Consumption, social differentiation and self-definition of the new rich in industrialising Southeast Asia
,
From Orang Kaya Baru to Melayu Baru
,
Contribution of a Japanese firm to the cultural construction of the new rich in Malaysia
,
Singapore
,
Years of living luxuriously
,
New rich and cultural tensions in rural Indonesia
,
How a revolution becomes a dinner party
,
Creating the Thai middle class
,
State, globalisation and Indian middle-class identity
,
Entrepreneurship, consumption, ethnicity and national identity in the making of the Philippines' new rich
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