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Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
‘Why Should We Vote?’: The Indian Middle Class and the Functioning of the World’s Largest Democracy......Page 36
Rewriting the Code: Software Professionals and the Reconstitution of Indian Middle Class Identity......Page 56
The Indian Corporate Hospitals: Touching Middle Class Lives......Page 89
Chinese Middle Class: Reality or Illusion?......Page 111
Power of Knowledge: The Imaginary Formation of the Chinese Middle Stratum in an Era of Growth and Stability......Page 128
A Requiem for Songpan, or Once More about China’s Civilizing Mission......Page 141
History and Heritage Woven in the New Urban Fabric: The Changing Landscapes of Delhi’s ‘First City’. Or, Who Can Tell the Histories of Lado Sarai?......Page 158
Eat, Drink and Sing, and Be Modern and Global: Food, Karaoke and ‘Middle Class’ Consumers in China......Page 171
Transnational and Transcultural Circulation and Consumption of East Asian Television Drama......Page 187
Sex, Television and the Middle Class in China......Page 208
Aspirational Weddings: The Bridal Magazine and the Canons of ‘Decent Marriage’......Page 231
Yeh Dil Maange More . . .Television and Consumer Choices in a Global City......Page 264
Consuming Art in Middle Class China......Page 278
About the Editors and Contributors......Page 293
Index......Page 296