On Shanghai’s middle class: a preliminary survey report.
In the past 20 years, new concepts and vocabulary have kept emerging to classify and characterize China’s middle class, via cultural symbols related to consumerism. Today, the middle-class culture at its post-nascent state has taken on some new features. The current study, which is based on a survey...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 632 - 643 |
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