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Teil I. Du, ich und andere - Kapitel 1. Ich bin meine Welt: Über das Schreiben von Ethnographie -- Kapitel 2. Mittagessen mit Jasmin Ahmad -- Kapitel 3. Ein Leben in Armut -- Kapitel 4. Die Erziehung von J. Kuna Rajah Naidu -- Kapitel 5. Appetit -- Kapitel 6. Die Gefahren der ethnischen Vermischung -- Teil II. Im Zeichen Chinas -- Kapitel 7. Hotel Belaga -- Kapitel 8. Heimat und Einsamkeit -- Kapitel 9. Das Verdrängte muss zurückkehren -- Kapitel 10. Die Narbe der Erinnerung.

Part I. You, Me, and Others -- Chapter 1. I Am My World: On Writing Ethnography -- Chapter 2. Doing Lunch with Jasmin Ahmad -- Chapter 3. A Lowborn Life -- Chapter 4. The Education of J. Kuna Rajah Naidu -- Chapter 5. Appetite -- Chapter 6. The Perils of Ethnic Crossover -- Part II. Under the Sign of China -- Chapter 7. Hotel Belaga -- Chapter 8. Home and Solitude -- Chapter 9. The Repressed Must Return -- Chapter 10. Scar of Memory.

1. Introduction: Petite Capitalism: What Drives it? -- 2. The Shop on High Street -- 3. 'She's not Your Kin, But She is Your Aunt' -- 4. Women's Fate -- 5. Shop-Floor Heroes -- 6. Tiger Parenting -- 7. A Lesson on Borrowing -- 8. Wholesale: The Road to Ruin -- 9. Family Legacy.

The discourse of Confucian Capitalism has been crucial in shaping our understanding of the brilliant economic successes of the Chinese diaspora all over the world. From this perspective, hard work, family values, and communal cohesion, as well as business practices based on sentiment, trust, and social networks, are the legendary means of explaining the wealth and commercial talent of these remarkable people. The book examines the subject of Chinese business' by exposing the enduring myth about the determining effects of these values and practices supposedly derived from Confucianism. Such myt

"Singapore traverses several fields of study, taking up ideas and frameworks from philosophy, psychology, political science, cultural studies and anthropology in order to tell the larger 'truth' about the Singapore state. As such, this book will appeal to anyone interested in Singapore and Asian studies alike."--Jacket

"Singapore traverses several fields of study, taking up ideas and frameworks from philosophy, psychology, political science, cultural studies and anthropology in order to tell the larger 'truth' about the Singapore state. As such, this book will appeal to anyone interested in Singapore and Asian studies alike."--Jacket

House of glass : culture, modernity, and the state in Southeast Asia -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 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 -- 5. National identity, diasporic anxiety, and music video culture in Vietnam -- 6. The post-modernization of Thainess -- 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 -- 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.

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 under conditions of globalization and rapid economic and political change. By paying attention to the specificity of what is taking place in the particular state, the book questions the conventional narratives of developmentalism and state-sponsored national peace as they are understood in Southeast Asia, and shows how such understanding can be made and unmade

One of the first conflicts of the Cold War, the Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war fought between Commonwealth armed forces and communist insurgents in Malaya from 1948 to 1960. Souchou Yao tells its story in a series of penetrating and illuminating essays that range across a vast canvas. Throughout the book runs a passionate concern for the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women in colonial Malaya. Here, the effect of counterinsurgency measures are captured by the anthropologist's art of ethnography and cultural analysis.

'Communicating with Asia: Understanding People and Customs' by Harry Irwin is reviewed.