TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerth,Karl
TI  - Unending capitalism: how consumerism negated China's communist revolution 
SN  - 9780521868464
U1  - 339.4/7095109045   23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Consumers
KW  - Communism
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1949-
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Consumerism and Capitalism Why did a growing number of people in a self-defined socialist country begin to need and want more and more things? This book provides the first history of consumerism during the initial decades after the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949. At the time of the Revolution, consumerism entailed three interrelated processes that had already been underway in China: the mass production of consumer products, the proliferation of a discourse about these products in popular media, and the use of such products to create and communicate identities"--
ER  -