The consumption of Kuala Lumpur / Ziauddin Sardar.

Main entry:

Sardar, Ziauddin, author.

Title & Author:

The consumption of Kuala Lumpur / Ziauddin Sardar.

Publication:

London : Reaktion, 2000.
©2000

Description:

237 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Topographics

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The view from Menarah Indahh -- The circumference of the mall -- Magicians and economic miracles -- Softly, through a venomous mist -- Virtual megalopolis -- Select bibliography -- Photographic acknowledgements.

Summary:

"Kuala Lumpur is the postmodern city writ large, a city that, within the short span of a decade, has been transformed from a sleepy capital into a technological marvel with a thriving, diverse and affluent cultural life. Using anecdotes, classic Malay myths and tales, and observations based on real and imaginary wanderings through the city, [the author] traces Kuala Lumpur's origins and charts the remarkable changes experienced by the city and its people, including the power struggle between Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his ex-Duputy Anwar Ibrahim. [The author] shows how a collision of cultures (Malay, Chinese, Indian, indigenous, Western) has re-emerged in the form of a new synthesis, inducing both a degree of disorientation and a unique sense of energy and excitement"--Inside front flap.

ISBN:

1861890575 paperback
9781861890573 paperback

Subject:

Civilization.
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) History.
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) Civilization.
Kuala Lumpur (Malaisie) Histoire.
Kuala Lumpur (Malaisie) Civilisation.
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur.
Kuala Lumpur

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Topographics.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218896
Call No.: DS599.K8 S27 2000
Status: Available

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