Download or read book Modernization Trends in Southeast Asia written by Terence Chong and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses and identifies the modernizing trends, which have changed Southeast Asian countries in varying ways. After an overview of current concepts of modernity, the following chapters introduce issues of education, citizenship and ethnicity, religion, the emergence of the middle class, and mass consumption in Southeast Asia. This book concludes by profiling the characteristics of Southeast Asian modernity.