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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.5/234/09509045
• Soggetto topico: Middle class - Asia; Social change - Asia; Elite (Social sciences) - Asia; Capitalism - Social aspects - Asia
• Soggetto geografico: Asia Economic conditions 1945-
• Altri autori: PinchesMichael
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Culture and privilege in capitalist Asia
• ISBN: 1-134-64214-8; 1-134-64215-6; 1-280-14234-0; 0-203-98207-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777338003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New rich in Asia.