13 May
Before we dive further into ways that Chinese relate to their more immediate environment – my tagline is “how to truly live in this world” for a reason – a pointer to one continuation of my discussion of luxury consumers in China, over at “The Ecology of Happiness:” China, “Green” Tradition and Luxury What could [...]
12 May
China’s luxury consumption is in the news. A lot. In all the celebration of chances for sales growth (with maybe a bit of puzzlement over a still-developing country’s citizens having to have goods that middle-class “Westerners” would find too, well, luxurious), consideration of what (luxury) brands mean to Chinese is rather lacking. Even as I’ve [...]
9 May
A lot of talk about luxury and/or middle-class consumers in China is about their conspicuous status consumption. The “I Buy, Therefore I Am” of China’s better-off… There’s something to wonder, though. If the middle class is the main driver of luxury consumption, and a quarter of the population, then the majority of said consumption in [...]
5 May
Not only has China become the world’s second-largest economy in terms of GDP, this country of famously high household savings rates has also become the world’s second-largest market for luxury goods. Hot on the heels of the Japanese, who were avid buyers of luxury brand goods during the heyday of their economy, and continued to [...]
22 Apr
Housing prices in China can make Manhattan seem attractive; prices for antiques and artworks (let alone antique works of art) have gone through the roof; the country is quickly becoming one of the largest markets for luxury goods. In all of those notable cases, China simply seems odd. Housing that costs several times the average [...]
Between "work" and "life," "humanity" and "nature," "us" and "them," we are ever more like tourists just visiting this world - and indeed this one life we have for sure.
High time we come to be at home.
…, Or: The Best Habit Is a Tool Convenience. It is our time’s great guideline. And it’s what makes us live ever more on this world, like tourists just visiting, rather than truly at home in this world. Even “lifehackers,” who seem the best example of people who still want to learn more when they [...]
“I’m not impressed.” It is easily the ugliest modern attitude that gets expressed by this phrase. As an attempt at coolness and aloofness that does not result in any of the freedom that a certain distance from the humdrum world could provide, it is nothing but proving that you are not really engaged in this [...]
The age of adventure, the era of explorers – it all seems a thing of the past. Now, the best you can do is action sports and extreme travel – but there’s a big difference: The earlier explorers didn’t quite know what they were getting themselves into, and went to the white spots on the [...]
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