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Title Global futures in East Asia [electronic resource] : youth, nation, and the new economy in uncertain times / edited by Ann Anagnost, Andrea Arai, and Hai Ren.

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 311 p.
Series Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : life making in neoliberal times / Ann Anagnost -- The middle-class norm and responsible consumption in China's risk society / Hai Ren -- Miraculous rebirth : making global places in Taiwan / Ching-wen Hsu -- On the streets of Beijing : medical melodrama in the everyday / Trang X. Ta -- On their own : becoming cosmopolitan subjects beyond college in South Korea / Nancy Abelmann, So Jin Park and Hyunhee Kim -- Smile Chaoyang : education and culture in neoliberal Taiwan / Nickola Pazderic -- "What if your client/employer treats her dog better than she treats you?" : market militarism and market humanism in postsocialist Beijing / YAN Hairong -- Notes to the heart : new lessons in national sentiment and sacrifice from recessionary Japan / Andrea G. Arai -- Neoliberal speech acts : the Equal Opportunity Law and projects of the self in a Japanese corporate office / Miyako Inoue -- Workplace dramas and labor fantasies in 1990s Japan / Gabriella Lukacs -- Governmental entanglements : the ambiguities of progressive politics in neoliberal reform in South Korea / Jesook Song.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Youth -- Employment -- East Asia -- Case studies.
Neoliberalism -- East Asia -- Case studies.
Globalization -- Economic aspects -- East Asia -- Case studies.
Ethnology -- East Asia -- Case studies.
East Asia -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Anagnost, Ann.
Arai, Andrea, 1956-
Ren, Hai, 1965-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780804776172 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804776189 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804776172
9780804784689 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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