Getting by class and state formation among Chinese in Malaysia / Donald M. Nonini.

Contents Introduction : an historical ethnography of class and state formation -- Counterinsurgency, silences, forgetting, 1946-1969 -- Boom town in the making, 1978-1980 -- Getting by : the arts of deception and the typical Chinese -- Banalities of the urban : hegemony or state predation? -- Class dismissed! -- Men in motion : the dialectics of disputatiousness and rice-eating money -- Chinese society as a sheet of loose sand : elite arguments and class discipline in a postcolonial era -- Subsumption and encompassment : class, state formation and production of urban space, 1980-1997 -- Covert global : exit, alternative sovereignties, being stuck -- Walking on two roads and jumping airplanes.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 329-338) and index.
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LCCN 2014038677
ISBN9780801452475 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780801479083 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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