"Getting by" : class and state formation among Chinese in Malaysia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nonini, Donald Macon (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : a 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.