Global Middle Class Report

Author: Zhou Xiaohong, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Vivid language, rich materials, unique perspectives, and thorough analysis all point to global topics in the post-industrial context—middle-class identity, confusion, characteristics. Discern taste, style, and elegance. With this volume in hand, grasp the trends of the global middle class. From emergence and rise to history, evolution, dilemmas, and growth. Half a million words narrate a century of middle-class life. London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Moscow, Delhi. Global scenes reveal the joys and sorrows of middle-class life. Through research on the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Canada, Nordic countries, Japan, Russia, India, South Korea, Brazil, as well as Taiwan and Hong Kong in China, this book not only presents the historical context, basic characteristics, and internal divisions of the global middle class but also conducts an in-depth comparison of the development models of the middle class in different countries and regions, such as the United States, Europe, and East Asia. With vivid language and rich materials, the author comprehensively explores the global topic of the "middle class" in the post-industrial context, which is undoubtedly beneficial for us to understand the development and fate of the Chinese middle class.