Consumption in Asia: Lifestyle and Identities

Challenging and contemporary, this collection of essays examines the processes which have transformed underdeveloped countries into full-blown consumer societies. Featuring contributors from These essays give the first detailed analysis of consumerism within East and South-East Asia and contain case studies from Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore and Japan.

Annie Hau-nung Chan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Sociology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Kuan-Hsing Chen coordinates the Centre for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Chua Beng-Huat is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore Chengze Simon Fan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Joanne Finkelstein currently teaches in the Department of Sociology, University of Sydney Solvay Gerke is Professor and Head of the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Bonn, Germany Seung-Kuk Kim is Professor of Sociology, College of Social Sciences, Pusan National University, Korea Rokiah Talib had been, until her recent retirement, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, and Coordinator of the Gender Studies Programme, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at the University of Malaya Shunya Yoshimi is currently Associate Professor, Institute of Socio-Information and Communication Studies, Tokyo University, Japan