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Household Durable Goods Ownership in Tianjin, China*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Teh-wei Hu ,
Ming Li  and
Shangjin Wei
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The consumption structure in China has undergone a dramatic change since the economic reform started in late 1979. Durable goods ownership, an important aspect of overall consumption, has experi enced an even greater change both in variety and quantity. Analyses of general consumption in China are found in Lardy, Van der Gaag, Hu et al. and Zhang et al.1 Quantitative analysis devoted solely to durable goods consumption in Chinese cities has rarely been undertaken.

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Research Article
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The China Quarterly , Volume 120 , December 1989 , pp. 787 - 799
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1989

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References

1. See Lardy, Nicholas, “Consumption and living standards in China, 1978–83,” The China Quarterly (CQ), No. 100 (December 1984), pp. 849–65;CrossRefGoogle Scholar Jacques Van der Gaag, “Private household consumption in China-a study of people's livelihood,” World Bank Staff Working Paper, No. 701; Hu, Teh-wei, Bai, Jushan and Shi, Shuzhong, “Household expenditure patterns in Tianjin, 1982 and 1984,” CQ, No. 110 (June 1987), pp. 179–95; and Zhang Xuejun et al., “Household consumption choices and the growth of natural income,” Yanjiu jingji (Economic Research), No. 1.Google Scholar

2. SeeKravis, Irving B., Heston, Alan W. and Summers, Robert, World Product and Income: International Comparisons of Real Gross Product (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982);Google Scholar and Ram, R., “Economic growth and structure of domestic absorption,” Journal of Development Economics, No. 26 (1987) pp. 291–300.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3. National Bureau of Statistics, China Statistical Yearbook, 1985 Beijing: 1985), p. 578.

4. Ibid.

5. Zhang Xuejun et al., “Household consumption choices.”

6. Ibid.