Globalization of lifestyle: Golfing in China

The New Middle Classes: Globalizing Lifestyles, Consumerism and Environmental Concern

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 143-158

  Zhang, Yaoqi ^a   Deng, Jinyang ^b   Majumdar, Suman ^a   Zheng, Bin ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conspicuous consumption; Leisure; Middle class; Sport; Tastes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889975234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9938-0_8     Document Type: Chapter

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