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As China goes, so goes the world : how Chinese consumers are transforming everything
- Title
- As China goes, so goes the world : how Chinese consumers are transforming everything / Karl Gerth.
- Author
- Gerth, Karl, 1966-
- Publication
- New York : Hill and Wang, 2010.
- Supplementary Content
- Additional Information at Google Books
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HC430.C6 G469 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 258 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Oxford historian Karl Gerth reveals why we should all care about the everyday choices made by ordinary Chinese. Chinese consumers are quickly replacing overspent Americans as the global economic engine, but in so doing they are dramatically reconfiguring the world economy in ways that may be impossible to reverse.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index.
- Contents
- No going back? -- Who gets what? -- Made in Taiwan -- Standardizing abundance -- Branding consumer consciousness -- Living in a world of fakes -- Extreme markets -- Environmental implications -- Conclusion : The Chinese ink blot.
- ISBN
- 9780809034291
- 0809034298
- 9780809026890
- 0809026899
- LCCN
- 2010012647
- OCLC
- ocn555656629
- 555656629
- SCSB-13567698
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries