House of Glass : : Culture, Modernity, and the State in Southeast Asia /

House of Glass : : Culture, Modernity, and the State in Southeast Asia / / ed. by Souchou Yao.

Drawing on critical theory and post-modernism, this book argues for a new strategy for writing about the social and cultural experiences of living in modern Southeast Asian states. Contributors -- many of whom work in universities in the region -- question the processes of cultural transformation un...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Ang, Ien,
Berger, Mark T.,
Carruthers, Ashley,
Choy, Lee Weng,
Harper, T.N.,
Heng, Russell H.-K.,
Langenbach, Ray,
Ockey, James,
Roces, Marian Pastor,
Souchou, Yao,
Tejapira, Kasian,
Thomas, Mandy,
Wee, C.J.W.-L.,
Wong, Loong,
HerausgeberIn:
Yao, Souchou,
Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (356 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Local desire and global anxieties
  • 1. Desperately guarding borders: media globalization, “cultural imperialism”, and the rise of “Asia”
  • 2. Modernity and Mahathir’s rage: theorizing state discourse of mass media in Southeast Asia
  • 3. Representing state desire and the sins of transgression
  • 4. McNationalism in Singapore
  • Part Two: Identity, the state, and post-modernity
  • 5. National identity, diasporic anxiety, and music video culture in Vietnam
  • 6. The post-modernization of Thainess
  • Part Three: State power, development, and the spectre of nation-building
  • 7. Cultural claims on the new world order: Malaysia as a voice for the Third World?
  • 8. (De)constructing the New Order: capitalism and the cultural contours of the patrimonial state in Indonesia
  • 9. The state and information in modern Southeast Asian history
  • Part Four: Representational strategies and politics of the popular
  • 10. Representing the Singapore modern: Dick Lee, pop music, and the “New” Asia
  • 11. Pictures at an exhibition: re-presenting the sugar industry at the Negros Museum, Philippines
  • 12. Stars in the shadows: celebrity, media, and the state in Vietnam
  • 13. On the expressway, and under it: representations of the middle class, the poor, and democracy in Thailand
  • Index

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