The Asian modern : culture, capitalist development, Singapore / C.J.W.-L. Wee ; [foreword by Chua Beng Huat].
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TextPublisher: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2007Description: xiii, 210 p., [4] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9789622098596 (hbk.)Subject(s): Social change -- Singapore | Social values -- Singapore | Singapore -- Civilization | Singapore -- Social conditionsSummary: Wee's narrative refuses to accept the uncritical interpretation of the modernizing processes in Asia as liberation from the hegemony of Euro-American capitalism.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-206) and index.
Wee's narrative refuses to accept the uncritical interpretation of the modernizing processes in Asia as liberation from the hegemony of Euro-American capitalism.