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The Asian modern : culture, capitalist development, Singapore / C.J.W.-L. Wee.

Author(s): Wee, C. J. Wan-ling

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Main Title
The Asian modern : culture, capitalist development, Singapore
Author(s)
Wee, C. J. Wan-ling
Publisher
Singapore : NUS Press, 2007.
Collation
xiii, 210 p., [4] p. of plates : col. ill.
24 cm.
ISBN
9789971693923
Dewey Class
306.095
Contents
Foreword / by Chua Beng Huat -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Asian modern -- Part 1. Deterritorialisation -- Chapter 2. The "modern" construction of postcolonial Singapore -- Chapter 3. Economic development and the national narrative -- Chapter 4. The homogenised urban environment and locality -- Part 2. Reterritorialisation -- Chapter 5. The state, ethnic identity and capitalism -- Chapter 6. Staging cultural fragments, the Singaporean eunuch and the Asian Lear -- Epilogue : disciplinary modernisation, the Asian economic crisis and re-invention.
Language
English
Subject
Social values -- Asia
Social values -- Singapore
BRN
7696

Notes

  • First published: Hong Kong University Press, 2007.
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