The Reinvention of distinction : modernity and the middle class in urban Vietnam /

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Other Authors: Nguyen-Marshall, Van, 1967-, Drummond, Lisa B. W. 1961-, Bélanger, Danièle
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Verlag c2012.
Series:ARI-Springer Asia series ; v. 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: who are the urban middle class in Vietnam? / Daniéle Bèlanger, Lisa Drummond, Van Nguyen-Marshall
  • Historical perspectives
  • Advertising, modernity and consumer culture in colonial Vietnam / George Dutton
  • Cuisine and social status among urban Vietnamese, 1888-1926 / Erica Peters
  • The associational life of the Vietnamese middle class in Saigon (1950s-1970s) / Van Nguyen-Marshall
  • Comtemporary perspectives. Middle-class landscapes in a transforming city: Hanoi in the 21st Century / Lisa Drummond
  • Finances, family, fashion, fitness and .....: the changing lives of urban middle-class Vietnamese women / Ann Marie Leshkowich
  • Exhibiting middleclassness: the social status of artists in Hanoi / Nora Taylor
  • Banking on the middle class in Ho Chi Minh City / Allison Truitt
  • When de Dai Gia (urban rich) go to the countryside: impacts of the urban-fuelled rural land market in the uplands: to Xuan Phuc
  • Afterword: consumption and middle-class subjectivity in Vietnam / Elizabeth Vann.