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UNINA9910449770803321 |
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Titolo |
Culture and privilege in capitalist Asia / / edited by Michael Pinches |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-64214-8 |
1-134-64215-6 |
1-280-14234-0 |
0-203-98207-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (330 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Middle class - Asia |
Social change - Asia |
Elite (Social sciences) - Asia |
Capitalism - Social aspects - Asia |
Electronic books. |
Asia Economic conditions 1945- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"This book is a project of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Western Australia"--T.p. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia shows that the cultural reconfiguration of domestic and international relations around Asias |
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