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• 07.06.08 China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: India, China, and Brazil sees highest jump in millionaires
  
  "India, China, and Brazil saw bigger growth in the millionaire population last year than anywhere else, and wealth in the Asia-Pacific is expected to grow nearly 8 percent a year to 2012 despite a slowdown in the world at large, a survey showed. The number of millionaires in the Asia-Pacific grew 8.7 percent from a year ago to 2.8 million people and their combined wealth soared 12.5 percent to $9.5 trillion US dollars, excluding the value of their homes and consumables, Merrill Lynch and Capgemini said at a news conference in Singapore recently..."  read on
  
  posted in population, brazil, korea, india, living, china, socialism, consumer behavior, trends, wealth
• 05.14.08 Chinese Calligraphy: Master Yue Le
  
  "In previous post in which I discussed chinese calligraphy, I talked a little bit about chinese calligraphy's history, and my impressions of its influence in contemporary chinese design. Since a lot of people have been asking me for more on the topic, I've decided to post on YouTube some videos of a trip my wife, a couple of friends and I did to Zhu Jia Jiao, one of the many river towns just outside Shanghai. In Zhu Jia Jiao, we've met Master Yue Le, a local artist that makes his living on creating banners/posters for tourist that visit that town: with our little domain of Mandarin, we've asked him to create some banners to represent something he would consider typical..."  read on
  
  posted in creativity, typography, calligraphy, tourism, brazil, travelling, design, education, china, shanghai, culture
• 09.01.07 China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior
  
  "With the opening to new markets and the growth of the Chinese economy, a new social class has emerged -- to some extend, unthinkable in a Communist China: the millionaires. According to a survey from Cap Gemini/Merrill Lynch, the number of millionaires (in US Dollars) in China have reached more than 230,000. The large majority of these new riches choose Shanghai to invest their money and also spend their money..."  read on
  
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