Consumer-citizens of China : the role of foreign brands in the imagined future China /
Kelly Tian and Lily Dong.
- 1 online resource (xix, 147 pages)
- Routledge contemporary China series ; 60 .
- 60. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages [133]-139) and index.
1. Imagining China, imagining brands -- 2. Rethinking popular notions of Chinese consumers' motives for responding to Western brands -- 3. Highlighted moments in the history of branded goods in China -- 4. Foreign brands in China as global brands from the imagined West -- 5. Chinese national narratives and the meanings of Western brands -- 6. National narratives in imaginative processing of Western brand promotions -- 7. Citizen-consumers in an age of globalization.