
Discover how 1 billion Chinese consumers are reshaping global markets. China's Super Consumers reveals why Chinese shoppers now account for 25% of luxury purchases worldwide and how Alibaba created an e-commerce empire larger than America's entire population.
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What happens when a nation of 1.4 billion people, suppressed from consumer desire for decades, suddenly gains purchasing power? In 2008, a critical piece of advice changed Apple's trajectory: partner with China Unicom immediately rather than waiting for China Mobile. This decision unlocked billions in revenue and positioned Apple to capture a market that would soon become the world's most influential. Yet just thirty years earlier, Chinese citizens wore identical gray clothing, used ration coupons for food, and needed government permits to buy televisions. This isn't just an economic story-it's a cultural earthquake that compressed a century of consumer evolution into three decades, creating a new breed of shopper who now shapes global markets from Paris to New York. To grasp China's consumer revolution, you need to understand what came before. For most of its 4,000-year history, China was self-sufficient, producing nearly 30% of global GDP during the Tang and Song dynasties. The Silk Road brought limited exchange, but China remained the "Middle Kingdom"-self-contained and inward-looking. This changed violently when Britain, facing unsustainable trade deficits from importing Chinese tea and silk, flooded China with opium from South Asian colonies. The resulting Opium Wars forced humiliating concessions, including foreign-controlled Treaty Ports that became instruments of exploitation. The Qing Dynasty collapsed in 1911, followed by decades of civil war, Japanese invasion, and finally Mao Zedong's Communist revolution in 1949.
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