The questioning consumption in East Asia and the West Garon, Sheldon M. Maclachlan, Patricia L. text Ithaca, N.Y Cornell University Press c2006 monographic x, 314 pages : Illustrations ; The evolution of the consumer : meanings, identities, and political synapses before the age of affluence / Frank Trentmann -- The consumers' republic : an American model for the world? / Lizabeth Cohen -- Consuming America, producing Japan / Shunya Yoshimi ; translated by David Buist -- The ambivalence of the new breed : nostalgic consumerism in 1980s and 1990s Japan / Jordan Sand -- Are the Japanese unique? : an analysis of consumption and saving behavior in Japan / Charles Yuji Horioka -- From singer to shinpan : consumer credit in modern Japan / Andrew Gordon -- The transnational promotion of saving in Asia : "Asian values" or the "Japanese model"? / Sheldon Garon -- South Korean consumer nationalism : women, children, credit, and other perils / Laura C. Nelson -- Consumption taxes and the welfare state in Sweden and Japan / Takatsugu Akaishi and Sven Steinmo -- Global trends vs. local traditions : genetically modified foods and contemporary consumerism in the United States, Japan, and Britain / Patricia L. Maclachlan -- Household debt and consumer education in postwar Japan / Takao Nishimura -- Urban Chinese homeowners as citizen-consumers / Deborah S. Davis. Consumption (Economics) Consumption (Economics)-East Asia HB 820 AMB 080144487X (cloth : alk. paper) 0801473020 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780801444876 9780801473029 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006007160.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006007160.html