{"product_id":"getting-by-class-and-state-formation-among-chinese-in-malaysia","title":"\"Getting By\": Class and State Formation among Chinese in Malaysia","description":"How do class, ethnicity, gender, and politics interact? In what ways do they constitute everyday life among ethnic minorities? In \"Getting By,\" Donald M. Nonini draws on three decades of research in the region of Penang state in northern West Malaysia, mainly in the city of Bukit Mertajam, to provide an ethnographic and historical account of the cultural politics of class conflict and state formation among Malaysians of Chinese descent.\nCountering triumphalist accounts of the capitalist Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, Nonini shows that the Chinese of Penang (as elsewhere) are riven by deep class divisions and that class issues and identities are omnipresent in everyday life. Nor are the common features of \"Chinese culture\" in Malaysia manifestations of some unchanging cultural essence. Rather, his long immersion in the city shows, they are the results of an interaction between Chinese-Malaysian practices in daily life and the processes of state formation―in particular, the ways in which Kuala Lumpur has defined different categories of citizens. Nonini's ethnography is based on semistructured interviews; participant observation of events, informal gatherings, and meetings; a commercial census; intensive reading of Chinese-language and English-language newspapers; the study of local Chinese-language sources; contemporary government archives; and numerous exchanges with residents.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0801479088\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0801479088.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Nonini, Donald M.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43163369570365,"sku":"BVV.0801479088.VG","price":7.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/getting-by-class-and-state-formation-among-chinese-in-malaysia","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}