Consumer Revolution in Chinese Cities

Author: Dai Huishu
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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 seen unprecedented rapid improvements, greatly stimulating interest in China studies within the field of social sciences abroad. China studies have gradually moved beyond local and regional research to become a shared focus of social sciences, particularly political science, economics, and sociology. There are two trends that give academic significance to research on China. This book is a collection of studies on contemporary China primarily by American scholars, which has had a significant impact in the US academic world. It conducts sociological analysis of consumption phenomena and changes in consumption patterns in Chinese cities based on social surveys. The theoretical framework it proposes for analyzing China's development from the perspective of consumer culture holds significant theoretical innovation, providing researchers with invaluable research paradigms and theoretical models.