02023cam a22002294a 4500020003600000020003500036020001800071020001800089050001600107245008300123260005400206300003600260505118600296650002801482650004001510700002201550700002801572856005801600942001201658952010801670999001501778  a080144487X (cloth : alk. paper)  a0801473020 (pbk. : alk. paper)  a9780801444876  a978080147302900aHB 820bAMB04aThe ambivalent consumer :bquestioning consumption in East Asia and the West /  aIthaca, N.Y. :bCornell University Press,cc2006.  ax, 314 pages :bIllustrations ;0 aThe 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. 0aConsumption (Economics) 0a Consumption (Economics)-East Asia.1 aGaron, Sheldon M.1 aMaclachlan, Patricia L.41uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006007160.html  2lcccBK  00102lcc40aGIMPAbGIMPAcREFd2023-08-15eDonationl0oHB 820 AMBp69639r2023-10-25w2023-10-25yBK  c3891d3891