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- 1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 210 p.) :) : col. ill., digital file.
- Summary
- 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 Singapore, are fraught with collaborations and conflicts between different socio-political, historical, economic, and cultural agents.
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- Asian Modern (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
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- Asian Modern (Online)
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- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-206) and index.
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- Contents
- 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.
- OCLC
- ssj0000412212
- Author
Wee, C. J. Wan-ling.
- Title
The Asian Modern [electronic resource] : Culture, Capitalist Development, Singapore / C.J.W.-L. Wee.
- Imprint
Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, [2007] (Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse 2012) (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-206) and index.
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Access restricted to authorized users.
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Print version: 9622098592 9789622098596