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China’s luxury travel boom runs on emotional value Greater China grew 34.4% in Virtuoso’s 2026 network sales, the fastest growth of any region. “Emoti

In China, emotional value describes the feeling a purchase produces — treated as part of the product itself.

In May, 89 of Douyin’s top 100 animated dramas were AI-made; in Q1 2026, 128,000 short dramas were released (3x all of last year), 95% AI-generated. A

So maybe we reframe it. Rather than something that can replace us, AI becomes the thing that gives unadulterated human originality real scarcity value