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Living in ‘garbage time’: when 500 million Chinese change their spending habits, the world feels it

By Christian Yao, Senior Lecturer, School of Management, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

China’s vast middle class is now changing its values, aspirations and consumption habits in an era of much slower economic growth – dubbed ‘garbage time’.

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