Beer in East Asia : a political economy
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Beer in East Asia : a political economy
（Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia, 179）
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary: "Chambers, Nuangjamnong and their contributors look at how the development of the beer industry in East Asia presents a unique opportunity for understanding the region's political economy. Asia is both the world's largest beer-consuming and beer-producing region, and the fastest growing beer market. Per-capita consumption is lower than Europe, but catching up fast. Beer consumption is also widely understood to correlate closely with economic growth and urbanisation, much more so than other alcoholic beverages like spirits. With 10 country case studies from both Northeast and Southeast Asia, the contributors to this volume look at the history of beer production and consumption across East Asia through a lens of historical institutionalism and political economy. In doing so they not only examine the development of the beer industry in the region, but also what it tells us about the countries themselves. They ask questions such as: To what extent have state versus societal actors influenced the path of