Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia.

Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pinches, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Routledge, 1999.
Subjects:
Since 1945
Middle class > Asia.
Social change > Asia.
Elite (Social sciences) > Asia.
Capitalism > Social aspects > Asia.
Capitalism > Social aspects
Economic history
Elite (Social sciences)
Middle class
Social change
Asia > Economic conditions > 1945-
Asia
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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