The Asian Modern [electronic resource] : Culture, Capitalist Development, Singapore /
Wee, C. J. Wan-ling.
Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press,
[2007]
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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