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Global Futures in East Asia : Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times /

"The East Asian economic miracle of the twentieth century is now a fond memory. What does it mean to be living in post-miracle times? For the youth of China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, the opportunities and challenges of the neoliberal age, deeply shaped by global forces in labor markets,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anagnost, Ann (Editor ), Arai, Andrea, 1956- (Editor ), Ren, Hai, 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Colección:Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : life making in neoliberal times / Ann Anagnost
  • The middle-class norm and responsible consumption in China's risk society / Hai Ren
  • Miraculous rebirth : making global places in Taiwan / Ching-wen Hsu
  • On the streets of Beijing : medical melodrama in the everyday / Trang X. Ta
  • On their own : becoming cosmopolitan subjects beyond college in South Korea / Nancy Abelmann, So Jin Park and Hyunhee Kim
  • Smile Chaoyang : education and culture in neoliberal Taiwan / Nickola Pazderic
  • "What if your client/employer treats her dog better than she treats you?" : market militarism and market humanism in postsocialist Beijing / YAN Hairong
  • Notes to the heart : new lessons in national sentiment and sacrifice from recessionary Japan / Andrea G. Arai
  • Neoliberal speech acts : the Equal Opportunity Law and projects of the self in a Japanese corporate office / Miyako Inoue
  • Workplace dramas and labor fantasies in 1990s Japan / Gabriella Lukacs
  • Governmental entanglements : the ambiguities of progressive politics in neoliberal reform in South Korea / Jesook Song.