Consumption In China

Author : LiAnne Yu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745684574

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Consumption in China by LiAnne Yu Pdf

Consumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace. Under Mao Zedong, the state controlled nearly all aspects of what people consumed, from everyday necessities to entertainment and the media; today, shoddy state-run stores characterized by a dearth of choices have made way for luxury malls and hypermarkets filled with a multitude of products. Consumption in China explores what it means to be a consumer in the world’s fastest growing economy. LiAnne Yu provides a multi-faceted portrait of the impact of increased consumption on urban spaces, social status, lifestyles, identities, and freedom of expression. The book also examines what is unique and what is universal about how consumer practices in China have developed, investigating the factors that differentiate them from what has been observed among the already mature consumer markets. Behind the often staggering statistics about China are the very human stories that highlight the emotional and social triggers behind consumption. This engaging book is a valuable resource for students, scholars and business professionals interested in a deeper understanding of what motivates China’s consumers, and what challenges they face as more aspects of everyday life become commoditized.

Author : Deborah Davis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520216407

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The Consumer Revolution in Urban China by Deborah Davis Pdf

This wide-ranging collection of essays by leading sociologists on the new consumerism of post-economic-reform China is an important contribution to our understanding of Chinese society and culture.

Author : Zhang-Yue Zhou,Hongbo Liu,Lijuan Cao
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782549208

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Food Consumption in China by Zhang-Yue Zhou,Hongbo Liu,Lijuan Cao Pdf

Recent decades have seen China�s domestic consumption in sectors such as food, housing, health care, education and travel greatly increase. This important book assesses China�s current food consumption trends and the outlook for its future needs of suc

Author : LiAnne Yu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Consumer behavior
ISBN : OCLC:1012105513

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Consumption in China by LiAnne Yu Pdf

Author : Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,Yin Hong,Michael Keane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317973362

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Media in China by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,Yin Hong,Michael Keane Pdf

Multinational media companies increasingly look to China as a highly important market for the future, but with what degree of confidence should they do so? Media in China is about a new kind of revolution in China - a revolution in which rapidly commercializing media industries confront slow-changing power relations between political, social and economic spheres. This interdisciplinary collection draws on the expertise of industry professionals, academic experts and cultural critics. It offers a variety of perspectives on audio-visual industries in the world's largest media market. In particular, the contributors examine television, film, music, commercial and political advertising, and new media such as the internet and multimedia. These essays explore evolving audience demographies, new patterns of media reception in regional centres, and the gradual internationalization of media content and foreign investment in China's broadcasting industries. This book will of use to students and professionals involved in media and communication, as well as anyone interested in contemporary China.

Author : Xinye Zheng,Chu Wei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Energy consumption
ISBN : 9811375240

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Household Energy Consumption in China by Xinye Zheng,Chu Wei Pdf

This book is primarily based on data from the third analysis of domestic energy consumption, and it combines the conclusive summarizes from the previous two investigations. The book sets out to extend the spatial dimension of the research to a global one and discusses future development of domestic energy consumption from a global perspective. Additionally, the book seeks to discover general rules and diversity features via comparison, domestic vs. global. Future predictions via observations and summaries of history are provided for the reader in this volume as well. The studies in this volume not only provide a basic and supportive index for academic research, but also provide readers with a concrete sketch for people to understand energy use in their day-to-day lives, and it provides policy makers with fundamental, need-to-know data.

Author : Yujie Zhu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology
ISBN : 9462985677

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Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China by Yujie Zhu Pdf

This book examines how heritage interacts with social-cultural changes and how individuals perform and negotiate their identities through daily practices that include tourism, on the one hand, and the performance of ethnicity on the other.

Author : Zhu Di
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813230347

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Consumption Patterns Of The Middle Class In Contemporary China by Zhu Di Pdf

This book, set against the background of accounts of globalisation, aims to figure out the consumer orientation of the middle class in contemporary China, in particular how the new elements in consumer orientation operate in the Chinese context. It focuses on the contemporary middle class. Data used in the book are taken from national representative surveys conducted in the recent decade and also from 30 interviews with middle class people in Beijing. The book focuses on the consumption patterns from everyday consumption, taste and material culture. It highlights consumers' self-referential orientations: the pursuit of pleasure, tempered by considerations regarding comfort, is a significant form of aesthetic justification. Living within one's means i.e. keeping a balance between expenditure and income is the main moral justification. Consumers' orientations draw on a new set of elements, conceptualised in this research as "the orientation toward personal pleasure and comfort." This orientation is shaped by social conventions, traditional values and the metropolitan context. The findings challenge the stereotype of the Chinese "new rich" and the one-dimensional pictures of tendencies towards either conspicuous display or frugality. Contents: Introduction Theoretical Approaches from the Sociology of Consumption The Formation of the Contemporary Middle Class The Emergence of Consumer Culture Research Methodology Characteristics of the Middle Class and Their Consumption Patterns Homeownership of the Young Middle Class Everyday Consumption of the Middle Class Consumption and Social Conventions Taste and Material Aspiration Conclusion Readership: Policymakers, professionals, academics, undergraduate and graduate students interested in China's new rich and the consumer orientation of the middle class in contemporary China. Keywords: Consumption;Middle Class;China Study;Taste;Consumer Culture;SurveyReview: Key Features: This book employs systematic methodology and framework to analyze consumer culture of the middle class, which could generate both academic and marketing significance This book draws on a new and distinct conceptualization of the Chinese middle class as "the orientation toward personal pleasure and comfort," to be opposed to the popular depiction of their being either conspicuous or frugal The author, with her work and life experiences in both China and the UK, has conducted academic practices in multiple contexts and witnessed consumer culture of the Chinese middle class in both China and overseas; these experiences therefore empower the book with more comprehensive and penetrating insights

Author : Kevin Latham,Stuart Thompson,Jakob Klein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135791438

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Consuming China by Kevin Latham,Stuart Thompson,Jakob Klein Pdf

Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates this characterization by examining the cultural significance of consumption and consumerism in the People’s Republic of China today. In questioning the notion of consumption, this impressive work suggests that it is not simply a symptom of economic reform within China neither a product of the emergence and transformation of contemporary Chinese capitalism. Rather, the essays offer a new perspective on Chinese consumption by focusing on more than just consumerism, looking at the practices of consumption in relation to different manifestations of social and cultural change. Drawing on case studies from Taiwan, Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China, Consuming China affords a greater understanding of the practice of Chinese consumption and will appeal to China scholars and anthropologists, and to those with an interest in cultural and gender studies.

Author : Karl Gerth
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173860

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China Made by Karl Gerth Pdf

"“Chinese people should consume Chinese products!” This slogan was the catchphrase of a movement in early twentieth-century China that sought to link consumption and nationalism by instilling a concept of China as a modern “nation” with its own “national products.” From fashions in clothing to food additives, from museums to department stores, from product fairs to advertising, this movement influenced all aspects of China’s burgeoning consumer culture. Anti-imperialist boycotts, commemorations of national humiliations, exhibitions of Chinese products, the vilification of treasonous consumers, and the promotion of Chinese captains of industry helped enforce nationalistic consumption and spread the message—patriotic Chinese bought goods made of Chinese materials by Chinese workers in factories owned and run by Chinese. In China Made, Karl Gerth argues that two key forces shaping the modern world—nationalism and consumerism—developed in tandem in China. Early in the twentieth century, nationalism branded every commodity as either “Chinese” or “foreign,” and consumer culture became the place where the notion of nationality was articulated, institutionalized, and practiced. Based on Chinese, Japanese, and English-language archives, magazines, newspapers, and books, this first exploration of the historical ties between nationalism and consumerism reinterprets fundamental aspects of modern Chinese history and suggests ways of discerning such ties in all modern nations."

Author : Kai Guo,Papa M'B. P. N'Diaye
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451982701

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Determinants of China’s Private Consumption by Kai Guo,Papa M'B. P. N'Diaye Pdf

This paper gauges the key determinants of China's private consumption in relation to GDP using data on the Chinese economy and evidence from other countries' experiences. The results suggest there is nothing "special" about consumption in China. Rather, the challenge is to explain why the conditioning variables-notably a low level of service sector employment, the level of financial sector development, and low real interest rates-are so different in China relative to other countries' historical experience. The results suggest, in particular, that efforts to further raise household income and the share of employment in the services sector, as well as to develop capital markets, including liberalizing interest rates and creating alternative savings instruments are likely to have the biggest impact on consumption. Other mechanisms to raise household income and mitigate household-specific risk (such as by improving the healthcare and pension systems) also have a role to play.

Author : Jeffrey R Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429712524

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Consumer Demand In China by Jeffrey R Taylor Pdf

This factbook provides an overview of China's consumers, their incomes, and the goods and services on which they spend their money. It consists of a brief introduction to sources of data on Chinese consumer demand and incomes, and numerous detailed statistical tables from these sources.

Author : Yanrui Wu
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Consumer behavior
ISBN : UCSD:31822027763838

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China's Consumer Revolution by Yanrui Wu Pdf

This is an examination of the general pattern of China's household demand for a variety of consumer goods such as food, durables, housing and health care. It also investigates the impact of economic and social factors on household consumption.

Author : Elisabeth Croll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134220533

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China's New Consumers by Elisabeth Croll Pdf

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 and generation, have both benefited from and been disadvantaged by the past two decades of reform and rapid economic growth. Given that consumption is about so much more than shopping and spending, this book focuses on the perceptions, priorities and concerns of China's new consumers which are an essential part of any contemporary narrative about China's domestic market. Documenting the social consequences of several decades of rapid economic growth and the new interest in 'all-round' social development, China's New Consumers will be of value to students, entrepreneurs and a wide variety of readers who are interested in social trends and concerns in China today.

Author : E. Tsang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137297440

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The New Middle Class in China by E. Tsang Pdf

Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class categories do not directly apply to China and that the Chinese new middle class is distinguished more by socio-cultural than by economic factors.