The Asian Modern : Culture, Capitalist Development, Singapore /

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How does one comprehend the phenomenon of the modernization of an Asian society in a globalized East Asian context? With this opening question, the author proceeds to give an account of how the modernization processes for postcolonial societies in Asia, such as those of India, Malaysia, and Singapor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wee, C. J. Wan-ling
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, [2007]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mass media > Social aspects > Singapore.
Capitalism > Singapore.
Singapore > Economic conditions.
Singapore > Social conditions.
Singapore > Civilization.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by Chua Beng Huat
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • ch. 1. The Asian modern
  • - pt. 1. Deterritorialisation
  • ch. 2. The "modern" construction of postcolonial Singapore
  • ch. 3. Economic development and the national narrative
  • ch. 4. The homogenised urban environment and locality
  • pt. 2. Reterritorialisation
  • ch. 5. The state, ethnic identity and capitalism
  • ch. 6. Staging cultural fragments, the Singaporean eunuch and the Asian Lear
  • Epilogue : disciplinary modernisation, the Asian economic crisis and re-invention
  • Notes
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index.

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