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1. Port Cities in Asia and Europe

   Edited by Arndt Graf, Chua Beng Huat

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   With the demise of European socialist economies and the marketization of Asian communist countries, a new global capitalism has reshaped the configuration of the world economy, with speed a determining factor to all transactions of information, finance, goods and services and people. Sea-ports...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Elections as Popular Culture in Asia

   Edited by Beng Huat Chua

   Series: Politics in Asia

   Conventional political science depicts legitimate elections as rational affairs in which informed voters select candidates for office according to how their coherently presented aims, ideologies and policies appeal to the self-interest of the electorate. In reality elections, whether in first world...

   Published August 4th 2009 by Routledge
3. Communitarian Politics in Asia

   By Beng Huat Chua

   Series: Politics in Asia

   With the collapse of European socialism in the late 1980s, ascendancy of the liberal capitalist democracy and individual self-interest became prevalent in the West. In contrast, many polities in Asia, both by tradition and choice, have explicitly adopted communitarianism as a national ideology, for...

   Published October 27th 2008 by Routledge
4. The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader

   Edited by Kuan-Hsing Chen, Beng Huat Chua

   Asian Cultural Studies or Cultural Studies in Asia is a new and burgeoning field, and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal is at its cutting edge. Committed to bringing Asian Cultural Studies scholarship to the international English speaking world and constantly challenging existing conceptions...

   Published May 30th 2007 by Routledge
5. Consumption in Asia

   Lifestyle and Identities

   Edited by Beng-Huat Chua

   Series: The New Rich in Asia

   The essays in this collection challenge conventional ideas about consumption and consumerism: they consider if the inundation of Western consumer goods have created identity confusions among the affluent in Asia, and if the expansion of consumer culture really does threaten the stability of...

   Published May 31st 2000 by Routledge
6. Political Legitimacy and Housing

   Singapore's Stakeholder Society

   By Beng-Huat Chua

   Singapore's successful public housing programme is a source of political legitimacy for the ruling People's Action Party. Beng-Huat Chua accounts for the success of public housing in Singapore and draws out lessons for other nations. Housing in Singapore, he explains in this incisive analysis, is...

   Published October 22nd 1997 by Routledge
7. Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore

   By Beng-Huat Chua

   Series: Politics in Asia

   The economic success of Singapore has established the country as a model for other nations. Yet until now the ideas behind this accomplishment have not been critically examined. Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore fills this gap. The book outlines the policies the ruling party has...

   Published April 30th 1997 by Routledge