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Chinese Up to Speed With Life in the Fast Lane

At The Los Angeles Times, Barbara Demick explains the surging consumption of luxury goods by China’s wealthy—illustrated by their world-leading purchases of Rolls Royces and Lamborghinis—and the political inconvenience it presents.Chinese fashionistas are displacing those immaculate Japanese women in their Burberry scarves as the world’s leading consumers of luxury goods. The consulting fir