Culture And Privilege In Capitalist Asia
Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia shows that the cultural reconfiguration of domestic and international relations around Asia's new rich has often been characterized by tension and division, and by an elevated status for the new rich themselves and the societies in which they live and work.\ In this latest volume in the New Rich in Asia Series the authors examine the cultural reconfiguration, consumer behavior, economic success and cultural status of the new rich. The book includes...
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Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia shows that the cultural reconfiguration of domestic and international relations around Asia's new rich has often been characterized by tension and division, and by an elevated status for the new rich themselves and the societies in which they live and work.In this latest volume in the New Rich in Asia Series the authors examine the cultural reconfiguration, consumer behavior, economic success and cultural status of the new rich. The book includes case studies from Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, India and China that challenge the narrow political-economic and cultural-determinist approaches that have so far dominated the literature on capitalist development in Asia. Booknews In 11 contributions beyond narrow political-economic and cultural- determinist approaches, area specialists present case studies analyzing how Asia's new middle class is reconfiguring national as well as class, religious, and ethnic identities for better and worse. Charts data on income, occupations, friendship networks, and advertising expenditures. Edited by the president, Philippines Studies Association of Australia. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
TablesNotes on contributorsPrefaceAcknowledgements1Cultural relations, class and the new rich of Asia12Consumption, social differentiation and self-definition of the new rich in industrialising Southeast Asia563From Orang Kaya Baru to Melayu Baru: cultural construction of the Malay 'new rich'864The contribution of a Japanese firm to the cultural construction of the new rich in Malaysia1115Singapore: where the new middle class sets the standard1376The years of living luxuriously: identity politics of Indonesia's new rich1597The new rich and cultural tensions in rural Indonesia1888How a revolution becomes a dinner party: stratification, mobility and the new rich in urban China2089Creating the Thai middle class23010The state, globalisation and Indian middle-class identity25111Entrepreneurship, consumption, ethnicity and national identity in the making of the Philippines' new rich275Index302
\ BooknewsIn 11 contributions beyond narrow political-economic and cultural- determinist approaches, area specialists present case studies analyzing how Asia's new middle class is reconfiguring national as well as class, religious, and ethnic identities for better and worse. Charts data on income, occupations, friendship networks, and advertising expenditures. Edited by the president, Philippines Studies Association of Australia. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
