This book provides essential insights into Chinese consumer behaviors in the growing and dynamic fashion market. With increasing consumer purchasing power, readily accessible global brands, heavy application of digital technology and social media, as well as growing awareness of environmental issues, the Chinese fashion industry faces great opportunities and challenges at the same time. The contributing authors provide observations and address issues related to middle class fashion consumption, sustainable apparel consumption, technology application in fashion retailing, and the select traditional and new industry segments in the context of China’s recent and massive economic boom. As such, the book offers an invaluable reference guide for all academics and practitioners interested in the Chinese fashion market.

This is the first anthropological study of the contemporary Chinese fashion and textile industries from high-end designer clothing to mass manufacture.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung' is a volume of selected statements taken from the speeches and writings by Mao Mao Tse-Tung, published from 1964 to 1976. It was often printed in small editions that could be easily carried and that were bound in bright red covers, which led to its western moniker of the 'Little Red Book'. It is one of the most printed books in history, and will be of considerable value to those with an interest in Mao Tse-Tung and in the history of the Communist Party of China. The chapters of this book include: 'The Communist Party', 'Classes and Class Struggle', 'Socialism and Communism', 'The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among The People', 'War and Peace', 'Imperialism and All Reactionaries ad Paper Tigers', 'Dare to Struggle and Dare to Win', et cetera. We are republishing this antiquarian volume now complete with a new prefatory biography of Mao Tse-Tung.

Styling Shanghai is the first book dedicated to exploring the city's fashion cultures, examining its growing status as one of the world's foremost fashion cities. From its origins as an international treaty port in the 19th century, Shanghai has emerged as a global leader in the production, mediation and consumption of fashion. This book reveals how the material and imaginative context of this thriving urban centre has produced vivid interpretations of fashion as object, image and idea. Bringing together contributions by a range of leading international fashion historians and theorists, and drawing on extensive original research, Styling Shanghai offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the mega-city's shifting position as a fashion capital. Rooted in collaboration between leading UK, Australian and Shanghai-based institutions, it considers the impact of local and global textile manufacturing, the representation and marketing of 'Shanghai Style', bodies and gender in the 'Paris of the East', and the challenges of globalization, commercialization and digital communication in contemporary Shanghai.

Less than three decades ago, when the Chinese bought cloth or clothes, they would have had to use a government-issued coupon. Today the Chinese fashion industry is one of the most dynamic in the world - it not only supplies fashions to the increasingly discerning domestic market, but also provides one-third of the clothing sold in the global market. How did this phenomenal transition come about? What can the growth of the Chinese fashion industry tell us about the post-Mao China? What roles do the local and the global play in the dramatic changes? This book offers a historically informed, ethnographically grounded and interpretive analysis of contemporary Chinese fashion and the fashion industry. It examines the interplay of state politics, market forces, local social and cultural factors, and the global political economy, both in the rise of the Chinese fashion industry and in the life and work of Chinese fashion professionals. As the first ethnographic account of the Chinese fashion industry in the post-Mao era, The Chinese Fashion Industry combines first-hand accounts with sophisticated cultural analysis to offer new insights, and will be of interest to students and scholars of fashion, anthropology and China.

The extremely fierce international competition requires the reconstruction of "Statustics". This book first conducts a routine analysis of five aspects of economic statistics: the time series analysis of economic growth in the past 30 years of the G20, the distribution of "net factor income from abroad" between countries, the identification of true country responsibility for carbon emissions, the exploration of "real chain-positions" under the international competition pattern, and the evaluation and revision of Morris's "Measure of Civilization". Furthermore, the book analyzes the international judgment background from a global perspective: "civilized hierarchy" is the inherent "legal" basis for the blatant pursuit of hegemonic behavior by major powers. Since World War II, the world has been in a "post-territorial colonial era" rather than a "post-colonial era". The so-called "formal justice" of the empire is only a by-product of the struggle for hegemony among the great powers. The logic of "America First" is global dictatorship, which is exactly the biggest external obstacle to the independent development of all "other countries". The growth of emerging economies has a duality. We should conduct in-depth economic statistics, promote national credit construction, and lay a more solid cognitive foundation for all sectors of society to study and judge statustic.

The Proceedings of the International Conference on Financial Management and the Digital Economy (ICFMDE 2023) offers an overview of research and insights into how financial management is evolving in the digital age. The book covers a broad spectrum from examining cryptocurrency trends to exploring fintech advancements. Topics also extend to digital transformation strategies, practical applications of blockchain technology, and the profound impact of digital innovations on financial markets. Through rigorous research and analysis, the proceedings offer valuable insights into the future trajectory of the global economy. Written for scholars, researchers, and industry professionals in finance, economics, and digital innovation, this collection provides valuable insights into the rapidly changing field of financial management. Readers will gain deep perspectives on how digitalization is reshaping financial landscapes worldwide.