Screen LibraryThe reinvention of distinction：modernity and the middle class in urban Vietnam
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Dordrecht New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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ARI-Springer Asia Series ; v.2 |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2306-1 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (vii, 173 p.): |
| ISBN: |
9789400723061 (electronic bk.) 9400723067 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | D733 |
| CLC: | D733.361 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. This pioneering collection brings together an international group of scholars to explore the Vietnamese middle class. From the leisure pursuits of the colonial middle class to the impact of the new urban rich on landscape of the countryside, this interdisciplinary volume explores the ways in which middle classness has been practiced in a wide range of contexts throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. In addition to offering insights into how middle classness was and is constituted and negotiated, this collection illuminates the cultural and social conditions of two distinctive periods in |