China's Me Generation  

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Elegant, Simon

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Time Magazine vol. 170 no. 05 (Aug. 2007), page 23.
Topik: China; young; rich; happy; apolitics; lifestyle

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The new middle class is young, rich and happy. Just don't mention politics. Six friends out on a Friday evening, the seafood plentiful, the conversation flowing. Maria Zhang--big hoop earrings, tight velvet jacket and a good deal of meticulously applied make up--starts to describe an island that everyone is talking about of the east coast of Thailand. It has great diving, she says, and lots of Chinnesse there so you don't have to worry about the languange. her friend Vicky Yang is hunched over a borrowed laptop, downloading an email from a pesky client on her cell phone. An actuary at consulting firm, Vicky needs to close a project tonight. While she phones a colleague, the dinner-table conversation moves to snowboarding ("I must have fallen a hundred times") to relative merits of various iPods ("Shuffle is no good") and the sudden onrush if credit cards in China. Silence Chen, an account executive with advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather at Beijing, tells the group he recently received six different cards in the email. "Each one has a credit limit of 10,000," he says, laughing. "so suddenly, I'm 60,000 yuan richer!" The talk turns to China's online shopping bussiness, before that is interupted by the arrival of razor clams, chili squid and deep-fried grouper. "There's nothing we can do about politics.. So there's no point in talking about it or getting involved"

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