| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-206) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Singapore -- Civilization.
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Singapore. |
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Civilization. |
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Singapore -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Singapore -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Mass media -- Social aspects -- Singapore.
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Mass media -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| In: |
HKU Press digital editions. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wee, C.J. Wan-ling. Asian modern. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2007] 9789622098596 (OCoLC)154686145 |
| ISBN |
9789888052837 (electronic book) |
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9888052837 (electronic book) |
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9789622098596 (hardback) |
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9622098592 (hardback) |
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