{"id":304,"date":"2012-06-26T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T17:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=304"},"modified":"2020-04-19T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T10:52:11","slug":"the-middle-class-southeast-asia-diversities-identities-comparisons-the-vietnamese-case-victor-t-king","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=304","title":{"rendered":"The Middle Class in Southeast Asia: Diversities, Identities, Comparisons and the Vietnamese Case, by Victor T. King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vol. 4, No. 2 (2008): 73\u2013109.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Much interest has been devoted since the 1980s to the new urban, educated\u00a0middle class in Southeast Asia which has emerged primarily as a result of stateled modernization and capitalist transformation. These processes have also been\u00a0occurring recently in the former centralized socialist economies of Southeast Asia\u00a0mainland. However, there has not been a great deal of comparative region-wide\u00a0research on the new middle class and we still know very little about such\u00a0countries as Vietnam. As Lui proposes we must explore the &#8220;richness of class\u00a0analysis\u2026.by probing people&#8217;s values, outlook, lifestyles, moral perspectives,\u00a0perceptions of social change and political choices&#8221; (2006: 47). As part of a\u00a0research project which examines the diversities and changing identities of the new\u00a0middle class in the region, this paper presents some initial thoughts on the\u00a0problems of defining and delimiting the middle orders of society and some\u00a0preliminary findings on the young educated middle class in the hitherto neglected\u00a0case of Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author&#8217;s bio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">V. T. King is a Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Leeds University and Executive Director of the White Rose East Asia Centre (Leeds and Sheffield). He possesses a wide research interests in the sociology and anthropology of Southeast Asia and has published a recent book entitled The Sociology of Southeast Asia: Transformation in a Developing Region (Copenhagen: NIAS Press and Honolulu: University of Hawai\u2019i Press, 2008) and a co-authored with William Wilder The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia: An Introduction (London: Routledge, 2003; reprinted 2006). Also a forthcoming co-edited volume with Michael Hitchcock and Michael Parnwell Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions (Copenhagen: NIAS Press and Honolulu: University of Hawai\u2019i Press).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Victor King: The Middle Class in Southeast Asia\" href=\"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/VictorKing_MiddleClassinAsia.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vol. 4, No. 2 (2008): 73\u2013109. Abstract Much interest has been devoted since the 1980s to the new urban, educated\u00a0middle class in Southeast Asia which has emerged primarily as a result of stateled modernization and capitalist transformation. These processes have also been\u00a0occurring recently in the former centralized socialist economies of Southeast Asia\u00a0mainland. 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