From Miracle to Mirage : : The Making and Unmaking of the Korean Middle Class, 1960-2015 / / Myungji Yang.
Myungji Yang's From Miracle to Mirage is a critical account of the trajectory of state-sponsored middle-class formation in Korea in the second half of the twentieth century. Yang's book offers a compelling story of the reality behind the myth of middle-class formation. Capturing the emerge...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) :; 1 b&w halftone, 4 tables, 1 map, 6 graphs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The State, Development, and the (Un)Making of the Middle Class
- Chapter 1. An Imagined Middle Class
- Chapter 2. The Rise of "Gangnam Style"
- Chapter 3. The Betrayed Dream of the Korean Middle Class, 1997-2015
- Conclusion: The Politics of a Downwardly Mobile Middle Class in an Unequal, Globalizing World
- Notes
- References
- Index