Getting by class and state formation among Chinese in Malaysia / Donald M. Nonini.
| Author/creator | Nonini, Donald Macon |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015. |
| Description | x, 348 pages ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-338) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014038677 |
| ISBN | 9780801452475 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780801479083 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |