Consumption in Asia: Lifestyle and Identities (The New Rich in Asia) - Softcover

Chua, Beng-Huat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415232449 ISBN 13: 9780415232449

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

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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Review:

"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."

Synopsis:

From the 1960s until 1995, East and Southeast Asia experienced tremendous capitalist economic growth, through which emerged a new urban middle class with a greatly improved material life. This book examines the processes which have transformed underdeveloped countries into full-blown consumer societies. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415232449
• ISBN 13: 9780415232449
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266