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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Reinvention of Distinction
    sub title: Modernity and the Middle Class in Urban Vietnam
  name:
    name part: Nguyen-Marshall, Van.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Drummond, Lisa B. Welch.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Bélanger, Danièle.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 176 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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 Vietnamese history. Three historical chapters consider how middle class status was experienced and displayed under French colonialism and in 1960s republican. These chapters offer examinations of middle classness through recreation, consumption, and associational life. Six contemporary studies examine the modes of experimentation and practice within middle class urban Vietnam. Still a sensitive topic politically, the contemporary middle class, nascent but increasingly powerful, is exerting a strong impact on the shape of contemporary society and culture, as well as on urban and rural landscapes. This volume offers a series of studies which critically interrogate the practices of those who engage in or aspire to urban middle-class lifestyles in Vietnam both in the past and in the present.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Who are the Urban Middle Class in Vietnam? Daniéle Bèlanger, Lisa Drummond, Van Nguyen-Marshall -- Part I: Historical Perspectives -- Chapter 2: Advertising, Modernity and Consumer Culture in Colonial Vietnam: George Dutton -- Chapter 3: Cuisine and Social Status among Urban Vietnamese, 1888-1926: Erica Peters -- Chapter 4: The Associational Life of the Vietnamese Middle Class in Saigon (1950s-1970s): Van Nguyen-Marshall -- Part II: Comtemporary Perspectives: Chapter 5: Middle-Class Landscapes in a Transforming City: Hanoi in the 21st Century: Lisa Drummond -- Chapter 6: Finances, Family, Fashion, Fitness and .....: The Changing Lives of Urban Middle-Class Vietnamese Women: Ann Marie Leshkowich -- Chapter 7: Exhibiting Middleclassness: The Social Status of Artists in Hanoi: Nora Taylor -- Chapter 8: Banking on the Middle Class in Ho Chi Minh City: Allison Truitt -- Chapter 9: When de Dai Gia (Urban Rich) go to the Countryside: Impacts of the Urban-fuelled Rural Land Market in the Uplands: To Xuan Phuc -- Chapter 10: Afterword: Consumption and Middle-Class Subjectivity in Vietnam: Elizabeth Vann.
  note: edited by Van Nguyen-Marshall, Lisa B. Welch Drummond, Danièle Bélanger.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: City planning
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Human Geography
  subject:
    topic: Urbanism
  subject:
    topic: Cities, Countries, Regions
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  classification: GF1-900
  classification: 304.2
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: ARI - Springer Asia Series ; 2
  identifier: 9789400723061
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2306-1
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    record creation date: 111115
    record change date: 20151120182045.0
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