Eric Kit-wai Ma
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789888083459
- eISBN:
- 9789882209329
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888083459.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This book is a study of consumer desire and cultural production in China through the lived experience of ordinary people. It focuses on the complex and changing cultural patterns in Hong Kong's ...
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This book is a study of consumer desire and cultural production in China through the lived experience of ordinary people. It focuses on the complex and changing cultural patterns in Hong Kong's relationship with the neighbouring mainland. From interviews, TV dramas, media representations and other sources, the book traces the fading of Hong Kong's once-influential position as a role model for less-developed Mainland cities and explores changing perceptions as China grows in confidence. The first part examines the history of cross-border relations and movements from the 1970s, focusing on Hong Kong as an object of desire for people in South China. The second part moves to the turn of the century when, despite increased communications and a ‘disappearing border’, Hong Kong is no longer a powerful role model; it nevertheless continues to be an important link in the chain of global capitalism stretching across southern China.Less
This book is a study of consumer desire and cultural production in China through the lived experience of ordinary people. It focuses on the complex and changing cultural patterns in Hong Kong's relationship with the neighbouring mainland. From interviews, TV dramas, media representations and other sources, the book traces the fading of Hong Kong's once-influential position as a role model for less-developed Mainland cities and explores changing perceptions as China grows in confidence. The first part examines the history of cross-border relations and movements from the 1970s, focusing on Hong Kong as an object of desire for people in South China. The second part moves to the turn of the century when, despite increased communications and a ‘disappearing border’, Hong Kong is no longer a powerful role model; it nevertheless continues to be an important link in the chain of global capitalism stretching across southern China.
Andrew Gordon
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520267855
- eISBN:
- 9780520950313
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520267855.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. This book traces the machine's remarkable journey ...
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Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. This book traces the machine's remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change patterns of daily life, class structure, and the role of women. As it explores the selling, buying, and use of the sewing machine in the early to mid-twentieth century, the book finds that its history is a lens through which we can examine the modern transformation of daily life in Japan. Both as a tool of production and as an object of consumer desire, the sewing machine is entwined with the emergence and ascendance of the middle class, of the female consumer, and of the professional home manager as defining elements of Japanese modernity.Less
Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. This book traces the machine's remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change patterns of daily life, class structure, and the role of women. As it explores the selling, buying, and use of the sewing machine in the early to mid-twentieth century, the book finds that its history is a lens through which we can examine the modern transformation of daily life in Japan. Both as a tool of production and as an object of consumer desire, the sewing machine is entwined with the emergence and ascendance of the middle class, of the female consumer, and of the professional home manager as defining elements of Japanese modernity.
Eiko Maruko Siniawer
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781501725845
- eISBN:
- 9781501725852
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501725845.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
In the financially confident 1980s, waste of most kinds did not seem so menacing to people’s lifestyles and consumer desires were amplified and expanded. Waste consciousness in this decade was not so ...
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In the financially confident 1980s, waste of most kinds did not seem so menacing to people’s lifestyles and consumer desires were amplified and expanded. Waste consciousness in this decade was not so visible as attentions and aspirations were fixated elsewhere in pursuit of an ever better life. Those who did advocate the curbing of waste were not prominent or mainstream, and many were careful to insist that waste consciousness would not disrupt daily life. What concern there was about garbage was circumscribed, focused on the management of rubbish and the promotion of recycling much more than the societal, cultural, and economic forces that resulted in its creation.Less
In the financially confident 1980s, waste of most kinds did not seem so menacing to people’s lifestyles and consumer desires were amplified and expanded. Waste consciousness in this decade was not so visible as attentions and aspirations were fixated elsewhere in pursuit of an ever better life. Those who did advocate the curbing of waste were not prominent or mainstream, and many were careful to insist that waste consciousness would not disrupt daily life. What concern there was about garbage was circumscribed, focused on the management of rubbish and the promotion of recycling much more than the societal, cultural, and economic forces that resulted in its creation.
