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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450875703321

Titolo

Consumption in Asia : lifestyles and identities / / edited by Chua Beng-Huat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-57236-0

1-134-57235-2

1-280-31792-2

0-585-45164-8

0-203-46756-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

The new rich in Asia series

Altri autori (Persone)

ChuaBeng Huat

Disciplina

306.3/095

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Asia

Lifestyles - Asia

Social change - Asia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Consuming Asians: Ideas and Issues; Malaysia: Power Shifts and the Matrix of Consumption; Changing Lifestyles and Consumption Patterns of the South Korean Middle Class and New Generations; Economic Development and the Changing Patterns of Consumption in Urban China; Middle-class Formation and Consumption in Hong Kong; Global Lifestyles under Local Conditions: the New Indonesian Middle Class; The Formation and Consumption of KTV in Taiwan; Singaporeans Ingesting McDonald's

Consuming 'America': from Symbol to SystemThe Anomic World of the High Consumer: Fashion and Cultural Formation; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The essays in this collection challenge conventional ideas about consumption and consumerism: they consider if the inundation of Western consumer goods have created identity confusions among the affluent in Asia, and if the expansion of consumer culture really does threaten the stability of politically anti-liberal states in Asia. This is the



first book to analyse in detial consumerism in the region, and will be valuable reading for students and researchers in Asian studies, economics, politics and cultural studies.