The ambivalent consumer
Subtitle: questioning consumption in East Asia and the West
By: edited by Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan.
Contributors: Garon, Sheldon M.; Maclachlan, Patricia L.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Consumption (Economics); Consumption (Economics) -- East Asia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolution of the consumer : meanings, identities, and political synapses before the age of affluence / Frank Trentmann; title: The consumers' republic : an American model for the world? / Lizabeth Cohen; title: Consuming America, producing Japan / Shunya Yoshimi ; translated by David Buist; title: The ambivalence of the new breed : nostalgic consumerism in 1980s and 1990s Japan / Jordan Sand; title: Are the Japanese unique? : an analysis of consumption and saving behavior in Japan / Charles Yuji Horioka; title: From singer to shinpan : consumer credit in modern Japan / Andrew Gordon; title: The transnational promotion of saving in Asia : "Asian values" or the "Japanese model"? / Sheldon Garon; title: South Korean consumer nationalism : women, children, credit, and other perils / Laura C. Nelson; title: Consumption taxes and the welfare state in Sweden and Japan / Takatsugu Akaishi and Sven Steinmo; title: Global trends vs. local traditions : genetically modified foods and contemporary consumerism in the United States, Japan, and Britain / Patricia L. Maclachlan; title: Household debt and consumer education in postwar Japan / Takao Nishimura; title: Urban Chinese homeowners as citizen-consumers / Deborah S. Davis.