Getting by class and state formation among Chinese in Malaysia /
Nonini, Donald Macon
Getting by class and state formation among Chinese in Malaysia / [Texte imprimé] : Donald M. Nonini - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015 - 1 vol. (348 p.) ; 25 cm
Bibliogr. p. [323]-338
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
978-0-8014-5247-5
Chinese--Malaysia--Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang)--Politics and government Chinese--Malaysia--Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang)--Ethnic identity Social classes--Malaysia--Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang) Nationalism--Malaysia--Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang) Ethnology--Malaysia--Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang) Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang, Malaysia)--History
305.895105951
Getting by class and state formation among Chinese in Malaysia / [Texte imprimé] : Donald M. Nonini - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015 - 1 vol. (348 p.) ; 25 cm
Bibliogr. p. [323]-338
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
978-0-8014-5247-5
Chinese--Malaysia--Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang)--Politics and government Chinese--Malaysia--Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang)--Ethnic identity Social classes--Malaysia--Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang) Nationalism--Malaysia--Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang) Ethnology--Malaysia--Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang) Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang, Malaysia)--History
305.895105951