Consumption in Asia : lifestyles and identities

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Title:

Author:

Chua, Beng Huat.

ISBN:

9780415213110

9780415232449

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Physical Description:

xiv, 249 p. ; 23 cm.

Series:

The new rich in Asia series

New rich in Asia series

Contents:

1. Consuming Asians: Ideas and Issues / Chua Beng-Huat -- 2. Malaysia: Power Shifts and the Matrix of Consumption / Rokiah Talib -- 3. Changing Lifestyles and Consumption Patterns of the South Korean Middle Class and New Generations / Seung-Kuk Kim -- 4. Economic Development and the Changing Patterns of Consumption in Urban China / Chengze Simon Fan -- 5. Middle-class Formation and Consumption in Hong Kong / Annie Hau-Nung Chan -- 6. Global Lifestyles under Local Conditions: the New Indonesian Middle Class / Solvay Gerke -- 7. The Formation and Consumption of KTV in Taiwan / Kuan-Hsing Chen -- 8. Singaporeans Ingesting McDonald's / Chua Beng-Huat -- 9. Consuming 'America': from Symbol to System / Shunya Yoshimi -- 10. The Anomic World of the High Consumer: Fashion and Cultural Formation / Joanne Finkelstein.

Subject Term:

Consumption (Economics) -- Asia.

Lifestyles -- Asia.

Social change -- Asia.

Added Author:

Chua, Beng Huat.

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Summary

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.