The Asian modern: culture, capitalist development, Singapore
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1. Verfasser: Wee, C. J. Wan-ling (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press [2007]
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-206) and index
Deterritorialisation -- The "modern" construction of postcolonial Singapore -- Economic development and the national narrative -- The homogenised urban environment and locality -- Reterritorialisation -- The state, ethnic identity, and capitalism -- Staging cultural fragments, the Singaporean eunuch, and the Asian Lear -- Disciplinary modernisation, the Asian economic crisis, and re-invention
Wee's narrative refuses to accept the uncritical interpretation of the modernizing processes in Asia as liberation from the hegemony of Euro-American capitalism. Nor is Wee prepared to concede that all cultural initiatives in the postcolonial societies are, therefore, denied all power to devise alternative forms of expression in the face of this haunting presence
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 210 pages, [4] pages of plates)
ISBN:9789888052837
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