Sardar, Ziauddin, author.

The consumption of Kuala Lumpur / Ziauddin Sardar.

London : Reaktion, 2000.
©2000

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

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"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.

1861890575 paperback
9781861890573 paperback

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

History.

Topographics.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 218896
Cote: DS599.K8 S27 2000
Statut: Disponible