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.
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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.
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Since mid-1997, most of the hitherto rapidly expanding economies of East and Southeast Asia have been brought down to different stages of economic recession and crisis; the possible exceptions being Taiwan, which continues to enjoy economic growth, and the People's Republic of China (PRC), which is experiencing an economic slowdown not amounting to recession. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Cultural Studies, Straits Times, Petaling Jaya, University of Malaya, Jeil Kihoek, United States, Walt Disney, World Bazaar, World War, China Statistical Yearbook, Middle-class Revolution, New Order, Public Culture, Chua Beng-Huat, Han Chinese, Lan Kwai Fong, National Statistical Office, Oxford University Press, People's Republic of China, Snow White New!
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Since mid-1997, most of the hitherto rapidly expanding economies of East and Southeast Asia have been brought down to different stages of economic recession and crisis; the possible exceptions being Taiwan, which continues to enjoy economic growth, and the People's Republic of China (PRC), which is experiencing an economic slowdown not amounting to recession. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Cultural Studies, Straits Times, Petaling Jaya, University of Malaya, Jeil Kihoek, United States, Walt Disney, World Bazaar, World War, China Statistical Yearbook, Middle-class Revolution, New Order, Public Culture, Chua Beng-Huat, Han Chinese, Lan Kwai Fong, National Statistical Office, Oxford University Press, People's Republic of China, Snow White New!
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- The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonald's and Middle Class Revolution (New Rich in Asia Series) by David SG Goodman on 9 pages
- Cultural Studies: Volume 7, Issue 3 (Cultural Studies Journal) by Lawrence Grossberg on 4 pages
- Lifestyle Shopping: The Subject of Consumption (International Library of Sociology) by Rob Shields on page 158, page 239, and page 240
- Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Mike Featherstone on page 32, page 80, and page 132
- The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thorstein Veblen on page 81, and page 240
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- Housing and Social Change: East–West Perspectives (Housing and Society Series) by Ray Forrest in Front Matter
- Media in China: Consumption, Content and Crisis by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald in Back Matter
- Organising Labour in Globalising Asia (New Rich in Asia) by Andrew Brown in Front Matter
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