China is obsessed with all things western
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,1267466,00.html
If it says 'made in China' on the label, most Chinese just don't want
to know
Xinran
Friday July 23, 2004
The Guardian
In city markets across China you will hear the following: "Look at
this beautiful silk shirt, made in America." "Look at these, real
leather shoes made in Japan." "Over here - the very best chocolate,
made in England!" On a publisher's tour of China in April, my western
friends asked me what it was that people were shouting. I never knew
what to say. Equally, I found it hard to answer my teenage son
Panpan's question last year in a Shanghai department store. A
saleswoman showed us a frying pan which she claimed had been made in
Italy and "designed by the Great British Museum".
Xinran
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