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What Chinese Want: Culture, Communism and the Modern Chinese Consumer Tom Doctoroff
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

This story filmed on Shanghai's equivalent of Rodeo Drive discusses how the pursuit of the self and material gratification has given rise to the modern Chinese consumer culture. What Chinese Want: Culture, Communism, and China's Modern Consumer. Why not ask which beverage is the best — what qualities they have? If a group of Chinese friends go to the bar together and one guy wants to treat everyone, he's going right for the most expensive item. Who gets priority when it comes to consumers who want pork, is it American consumers or Chinese consumers who get first priority? Tom Doctoroff has opinions and he isn't afraid to express them. Or will it go to the highest bidder? If Vladimir Lenin were reincarnated in 21st-century Beijing and managed to avert his eyes from the city's glittering skyscrapers and conspicuous consumption, he would instantly recognize in the ruling Chinese Communist Party a replica of the system he designed nearly a .. How are religion and spirituality now viewed in a country with a communist government and a capitalist economy? But why do they tend to go with the most expensive thing regardless? President Hu has held a number of summits over the past few years with Western leaders. What the Chinese have demonstrated is that in the modern world, to the conquerors do not go the spoils. You can't expect Chinese consumers to have the same complex culture of beer drinking as in Belgium, or wine culture of Spain. China like all other societies has had a complex and dynamic history, shaped by internal and external forces, with many facets of its culture and political life shifting dramatically throughout its historical experience . Only they, like he, have once again been proved wrong. The answer is [again and again] face.