LEADER 04745nam 2200709 450 001 9910826502803321 005 20230126211107.0 010 $a0-8014-5621-5 010 $a0-8014-7908-8 010 $a0-8014-5622-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801456220 035 $a(CKB)2670000000606932 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001460905 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11882542 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001460905 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11470025 035 $a(PQKB)10814628 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138724 035 $a(DE-B1597)480080 035 $a(OCoLC)979743869 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801456220 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138724 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11040194 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL759712 035 $a(OCoLC)922998518 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000606932 100 $a20150417h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGetting by $eclass and state formation among Chinese in Malaysia /$fDonald M. Nonini 210 1$aIthaca, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (361 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8014-5247-3 311 0 $a1-336-28426-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: A Historical Ethnography of Class and State Formation --$t1. Counterinsurgency, Silences, Forgetting, 1946-69 --$tPart I. DEVELOPMENT (1969-85) --$tPreface: Colonial Residues and "Development" --$t2. "Boom Town in the Making," 1978-80 --$t3. "Getting By": The Arts of Deception and the "Typical Chinese" --$t4. Banalities of the Urban: Hegemony or State Predation? --$t5. Class Dismissed! --$t6. Men in Motion: The Dialectics of "Disputatiousness" and "Rice-Eating Money" --$t7. Chinese Society as "A Sheet of Loose Sand": Elite Arguments and Class Discipline in a Postcolonial Era --$tPart II. GLOBALIZATION (1985-97) --$tPreface: Going Global --$t8. Subsumption and Encompassment: Class, State Formation, and the Production of Urban Space, 1980-97 --$t9. Covert Global: Exit, Alternative Sovereignties, and Being Stuck --$t10. "Walking on Two Roads" and "Jumping Airplanes" --$tEpilogue: 1997-2007 --$tAppendix: A Profile of Economic "Domination"? --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aHow do class, ethnicity, gender, and politics interact? In what ways do they constitute everyday life among ethnic minorities? In "Getting By," Donald M. Nonini draws on three decades of research in the region of Penang state in northern West Malaysia, mainly in the city of Bukit Mertajam, to provide an ethnographic and historical account of the cultural politics of class conflict and state formation among Malaysians of Chinese descent. Countering triumphalist accounts of the capitalist Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, Nonini shows that the Chinese of Penang (as elsewhere) are riven by deep class divisions and that class issues and identities are omnipresent in everyday life. Nor are the common features of "Chinese culture" in Malaysia manifestations of some unchanging cultural essence. Rather, his long immersion in the city shows, they are the results of an interaction between Chinese-Malaysian practices in daily life and the processes of state formation-in particular, the ways in which Kuala Lumpur has defined different categories of citizens. Nonini's ethnography is based on semistructured interviews; participant observation of events, informal gatherings, and meetings; a commercial census; intensive reading of Chinese-language and English-language newspapers; the study of local Chinese-language sources; contemporary government archives; and numerous exchanges with residents. 606 $aChinese$zMalaysia$zBukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang)$xPolitics and government 606 $aChinese$zMalaysia$zBukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang)$xEthnic identity 606 $aSocial classes$zMalaysia$zBukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang) 606 $aNationalism$zMalaysia$zBukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang) 606 $aEthnology$zMalaysia$zBukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang) 607 $aBukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang, Malaysia)$xHistory 615 0$aChinese$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aChinese$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aSocial classes 615 0$aNationalism 615 0$aEthnology 676 $a305.8951/05951 700 $aNonini$b Donald Macon$01148616 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826502803321 996 $aGetting by$93927919 997 $aUNINA