The ambivalent consumer : questioning consumption in East Asia and the West /
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- The evolution of the consumer : meanings, identities, and political synapses before the age of affluence / Frank Trentmann
- The consumers' republic : an American model for the world? / Lizabeth Cohen
- Consuming America, producing Japan / Shunya Yoshimi ; translated by David Buist
- The ambivalence of the new breed : nostalgic consumerism in 1980s and 1990s Japan / Jordan Sand
- Are the Japanese unique? : an analysis of consumption and saving behavior in Japan / Charles Yuji Horioka
- From singer to shinpan : consumer credit in modern Japan / Andrew Gordon
- The transnational promotion of saving in Asia : "Asian values" or the "Japanese model"? / Sheldon Garon
- South Korean consumer nationalism : women, children, credit, and other perils / Laura C. Nelson
- Consumption taxes and the welfare state in Sweden and Japan / Takatsugu Akaishi and Sven Steinmo
- Global trends vs. local traditions : genetically modified foods and contemporary consumerism in the United States, Japan, and Britain / Patricia L. Maclachlan
- Household debt and consumer education in postwar Japan / Takao Nishimura
- Urban Chinese homeowners as citizen-consumers / Deborah S. Davis.