The ambivalent consumer : questioning consumption in East Asia and the West /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Garon, Sheldon M., Maclachlan, Patricia L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.