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Modernization trends in Southeast Asia Terence Chong.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Southeast Asia background series ; no. 9.Publication details: Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2005.Description: viii, 72 pages 2005ISBN:
  • 9812303162
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.0959 CHO
Summary: This book discusses and identifies the modernizing trends, which have changed Southeast Asian countries in varying ways. After an overview of current concepts of modernity, the following chapters introduce issues of education, citizenship and ethnicity, religion, the emergence of the middle class, and mass consumption in Southeast Asia. This book concludes by profiling the characteristics of Southeast Asian modernity.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-72

This book discusses and identifies the modernizing trends, which have changed Southeast Asian countries in varying ways. After an overview of current concepts of modernity, the following chapters introduce issues of education, citizenship and ethnicity, religion, the emergence of the middle class, and mass consumption in Southeast Asia. This book concludes by profiling the characteristics of Southeast Asian modernity.

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