Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Pinches, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Asian financial crisis has distracted attention from the realities of a growing affluent class in Asia. this latest volume in the New Rich in Asia series the authors examine the cultural reconfiguration, consumer behaviour, economic success and cultural status of the new rich. Case studies from Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, India and China paint a picture of the real significance of the affluent classes and their effect on national, ethnic and religious restructuring.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134642144
• Artikelnr.: 42725601

Autorenporträt

Michael Pinches

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Cultural Relations, Class and the New Rich of Asia
Michael Pinches Consumtion, Social Differentiation and Self-Definition of
the New Rich in Industrialising Southeast Asia Ken Young From Orang Kaya
Baru to Melayu Baru: Cultural construction of the Malay 'New Rich' Shamsul
A.B. The Contribution of a Japanese Firm to the Cultural Construction of
the 'New Rich' in Malaysia Wendy Smith Singapore: Where the New Middle
Class Sets the Standard Chua Beng-Huat & Tan Joo Ean The Years of Living
Luxuriously: Identity Politics of Indonesia's New Rich Ariel Heryanto The
New Rich and Cultural Tensions in Rural Indonesia Hans Antlov How a
Revolution Becomes a Dinner Party: Stratification, Mobility and the New
Rich in Urban China Christopher Buckley Creating the Thai Middle Class Jim
Ockey The State, Globalization and Indian Middle Class Identity Salim Lakha
Entrepreneurship, Consumption, Ethnicity and National Identity in the
Making of the Philippines' New Rich Michael Pinches