Local Cultures and the New Asia
The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia
Published on 25. June 2018
260 pages
978-981-230-714-9 (ISBN)
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Digital original
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1,92 MB
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978-981-230-714-9 (9789812307149)
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C.J. W-L Wee (English Language and Literature Academic Group, Nanyang Technological University Singapore)
Local Cultures and the "New Asia": the State, Culture and Capitalism in Southeast Asia
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06/2006
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction: Local Cultures, Economic Development, and Southeast Asia
- 1 Development Enabler or Disabler? The Role of the State in Southeast Asia
- 2 Muddling Through: Development Under a "Weak" State
- 3 Battering Down the Chinese Walls: The Antinomies of Anglo-American Liberalism and the History of East Asian Capitalism in the Shadow of the Cold War
- 4 Religion, Values, and Capitalism in Asia
- 5 From Universal to Local Culture: The State, Ethnic Identity, and Capitalism in Singapore
- 6 Telephony at the Limits of State Control: "Discourse Networks" in Indonesia
- 7 Rethinking Modernity: State, Ethnicity, and Class in the Forging of a Modern Urban Malaysia
- 8 Thai Middle-Class Practice and Consumption of Traditional Dance: "Thai-ness" and High Art
- Index
