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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449770803321

Titolo

Culture and privilege in capitalist Asia / / edited by Michael Pinches

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-64214-8

1-134-64215-6

1-280-14234-0

0-203-98207-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

New rich in Asia series

Altri autori (Persone)

PinchesMichael

Disciplina

305.5/234/09509045

Soggetti

Middle class - Asia

Social change - Asia

Elite (Social sciences) - Asia

Capitalism - Social aspects - Asia

Electronic books.

Asia Economic conditions 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book is a project of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Western Australia"--T.p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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;

Sommario/riassunto

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.