Decades Later, Chinese Consumers' Tastes Change from NPR: Business Story of the Day Podcast

Chinese consumers are spending. Karl Gerth, a professor at Oxford University, tells Steve Inskeep that Chinese consumerism already is changing the world. He writes about it in a new book called As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers are Transforming Everything.

Download the podcast of the show here. See also: As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything, China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation (Harvard East Asian Monographs), Politics, Character, and Culture: Perspectives from Hans Gerth (Contributions in Sociology)