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Luxury spending in China has been crimped by the combination of a housing crisis and a government campaign against showy displays of wealth. Rather than monogrammed totes, Chinese youngsters now carry their belongings around in plastic bags to flaunt their frugality.
Why Louis Vuitton is struggling but Hermès is not
It is Beijing’s—if not the world’s—densest urban environment.
Michael Meyer • The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
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Michael Meyer • The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
Eighteenth-century China saw the end of serfdom, abolished by the Yung-cheng emperor,93 and a new freedom to buy and sell land. The number of market towns rose steadily. In the Kiangnan region on the lower Yangtze, where water communications had favoured the growth of large commercial cities, cotton cloth was manufactured on a large scale by villag
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Made in China 🇨🇳 is no longer the cheapest option. It’s not even particularly cheap 🏭 https://t.co/yAbecSIoej