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Consumption in Asia : lifestyles and identities /

Annotation 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chua, Beng Huat
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Colección:New rich in Asia series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Consuming Asians: ideas and issues / Chua Beng-Huat
  • Malaysia: power shifts and the matrix of consumption / Rokiah Talib
  • Changing lifestyles and consumption patterns of the South Korean middle class and new generations / Seung-Kuk Kim
  • Economic development and the changing patterns of consumption in urban China / Chengze Simon Fan
  • Middle-class formation and consumption in Hong Kong / Annie Hau-Nung Chan
  • Global lifestyles under local conditions: the new Indonesian middle class / Solvay Gerke
  • The formation and consumption of KTV in Taiwan / Kuan-Hsing Chen
  • Singaporeans ingesting McDonald's / Chua Beng-Huat
  • Consuming 'America': from symbol to system / Shunya Yoshimi
  • The anomic world of the high consumer: fashion and cultural formation / Joanne Finkelstein.