Life is not complete without shopping
Subtitle: consumption culture in Singapore
By: Chua Beng Huat.
Publisher: Singapore University Press, National University of Singapore
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- Singapore.; Lifestyles -- Singapore.; Social change -- Singapore.
Other titles: Consumption culture in Singapore
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: Framing Singapore's consumption culture; title: The emerging culture of consumption; title: Bodies in shopping centres; title: Steps to becoming a fashion consumer; title: On the power cheongsam and other ethnic clothes; title: Food, ethnicity, and nation; title: Singaporeans ingesting McDonald's; title: Japanese influence in Singapore; title: Taiwan's future/Singapore's past; title: Cinematic critique from the margins and the mainstream.