Consumer Revolution in Chinese Cities

Author: Dai Hui'en
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: After the 1980s, with China's reform and opening-up, especially the rise of China's economy in the last decade of the 20th century and, people's lives have undergone unprecedented rapid improvement, greatly stimulating the interest of foreign social sciences in Chinese studies. Chinese studies have gradually moved beyond the scope of local and regional research to become a field of common concern for social sciences, especially political science, economics, and sociology. There are two trends that give research on China a global significance in academia. This book is a collection of essays on contemporary China by scholars mainly from the United States. It has had a significant impact in the U.S. academic world. Based on social surveys, it conducts sociological analysis of consumption phenomena and changes in consumption patterns in Chinese cities. The theoretical framework it proposes for analyzing China's real development from the perspective of consumer culture holds important theoretical innovation significance and provides researchers in theoretical studies with invaluable research paradigms and theoretical models.