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This is a book about the emerging patterns of consumption among the middle classes of India and China. The book compares cultural shifts as a result of liberalization and globalization in these two emerging Asian powers. This volume does not compare India and China to the West, as books on similar subjects have done in the past. Instead they are compared with each other. This book is well-timed, considering that both these countries have so much in common in terms of scale, civilization, history, and as emerging economies.
The chapters in this book have been written by sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists rather than by economists, so the emphasis is on cultural shifts rather than economic statistics. Transnational developments, like tourism, karaoke, soap operas, and the art market, have all been extensively covered in this book
Power of Knowledge: The Imaginary Formation of the Chinese Middle Stratum in an Era of Growth and Stability
Power of Knowledge: The Imaginary Formation of the Chinese Middle Stratum in an Era of Growth and Stability
‘In the present stage how to structure and expand the middle stratum in our society?’
The emergence of a Chinese middle class has become a hot topic. Political leaders, researchers, journalists and potential members of this stratum discuss and write extensively about the consequences of this phenomenon. The objective of this paper is not to produce a new contribution to an already active field of research but to understand how researchers and intellectuals construct a ‘class’, which they are supposed to define. It is the preliminary step in a ...
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