China's New Consumers: Social Development and Domestic Demand

by Elisabeth Croll

Book Overview

Exploring China's consumer revolution over the past three decades, this book shows a continuing cycle leading to excess supply and disappointing demand, at the centre of which lies exaggerated expectations of China's new consumers.

Combining economic trends with the author's anthropological background, China's New Consumers details the livelihoods and lifestyles of China's new and evolving social categories who, divided by wealth, location...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415411238
• ISBN13: 9780415411233
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.6"