economy - Is the Chinese middle class really emerging?

China Economic Quarterly and Access Asia, represented by Arthur Kroeber and Paul French will address this highly ideological debate.

There has been much talk about a consumption boom in China, fuelled by the explosive growth of an urban middle class which some forecasts predict will exceed 500mn people by 2015. Research by the China Economic Quarterlyand Access Asia shows that the consumption boom is mostly hype, Chinese retail sales are far smaller than headline statistics suggest, and the Chinese "middle class" is mostly a myth.

Date: Tuesday February 13
Time: 7pm
Venue: F.C.C (Foreign Culture Club), 889 Julu Lu by Changshu Lu, Shanghai
RSVP: paul@accessasia.co.uk