Modernization Trends in Southeast Asia / / Terence Chong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Chong, Terence,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (80 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; In Focus --; About the Author --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Modernization and Modernity --; 3. Education in Southeast Asia --; 4. Citizenship and Ethnicity in the Age of Globalization --; 5. Religion --; 6. Emergence of the Middle Class --; 7. Mass Consumption --; 8. Conclusion: Towards a Southeast Asian Modernity? --; Selected Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789812307057; 9783110649772; 9783111024707; 9783110663006; 9783110606683
• DOI: 10.1355/9789812307057
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Terence Chong.

This book discusses and identifies the modernizing trends, which have changed Southeast Asian countries in varying ways. After an overview of current concepts of modernity, the following chapters introduce issues of education, citizenship and ethnicity, religion, the emergence of the middle class, and mass consumption in Southeast Asia. This book concludes by profiling the characteristics of Southeast Asian modernity.