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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pinches, Michael.

Asia Research Centre.

Series:

New rich in Asia.

New rich in Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--Asia.

Middle class.

Social change--Asia.

Social change.

Elite (Social sciences)--Asia.

Elite (Social sciences).

Capitalism--Social aspects--Asia.

Capitalism.

Asia--Economic conditions--1945-.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

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;

Notes:

"This book is a project of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Western Australia"--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-64214-8

1-134-64215-6

1-280-14234-0

0-203-98207-X

9780203982075

OCLC:

475942455