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The Asian modern : culture, capitalist development, Singapore / C.J.W.-L. Wee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wee, C. J. Wan-ling.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism--Singapore.
- Capitalism.
- Singapore--Civilization.
- Singapore.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : NUS Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How does one comprehend the phenomenon of the modernization of an Asian society in a globalized East Asian context? With this opening question, the author proceeds to give an account of how the modernization processes for postcolonial societies in Asia, such as those of India, Malaysia, and Singapore, are fraught with collaborations and conflicts between different socio-political, historical, economic, and cultural agents.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Chua Beng Huat
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- ch. 1. The Asian modern
- - pt. 1. Deterritorialisation
- ch. 2. The "modern" construction of postcolonial Singapore
- ch. 3. Economic development and the national narrative
- ch. 4. The homogenised urban environment and locality
- pt. 2. Reterritorialisation
- ch. 5. The state, ethnic identity and capitalism
- ch. 6. Staging cultural fragments, the Singaporean eunuch and the Asian Lear
- Epilogue : disciplinary modernisation, the Asian economic crisis and re-invention
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 988-220-750-2
- 1-282-70942-9
- 9786612709425
- 988-8052-83-7
- OCLC:
- 646068524
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