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Published: 1st June 2000
ISBN: 9780415213110
Number Of Pages: 268
The essays in this collection challenge conventional ideas about consumption and consumerism: they consider if the inundation of Western consumer goods have created identity confusions among the affluent in Asia, and if the expansion of consumer culture really does threaten the stability of politically anti-liberal states in Asia. This is the first book to analyse in detial consumerism in the region, and will be valuable reading for students and researchers in Asian studies, economics, politics and cultural studies.
"The strength of the volume rests in its exploration of consumption asa an object in ideological/cultural discourses...This volume is a welcome and important contribution, both theoretically and empirically, to the growing literature on consumption inside and outside of Asia nO Journal of Asian Studies."
| List of tables | p. vii |
| Notes on contributors | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xv |
| Consuming Asians: Ideas and Issues | p. 1 |
| Malaysia: Power Shifts and the Matrix of Consumption | p. 35 |
| Changing Lifestyles and Consumption Patterns of the South Korean Middle Class and New Generations | p. 61 |
| Economic Development and the Changing Patterns of Consumption in Urban China | p. 82 |
| Middle-class Formation and Consumption in Hong Kong | p. 98 |
| Global Lifestyles under Local Conditions: the New Indonesian Middle Class | p. 135 |
| The Formation and Consumption of KTV in Taiwan | p. 159 |
| Singaporeans Ingesting McDonald's | p. 183 |
| Consuming 'America': from Symbol to System | p. 202 |
| The Anomic World of the High Consumer: Fashion and Cultural Formation | p. 225 |
| Index | p. 241 |
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ISBN: 9780415213110
ISBN-10: 0415213118
Series: New Rich in Asia
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 268
Published: 1st June 2000
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.23 x 14.61
x 2.54
Weight (kg): 0.45
Edition Number: 1
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