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Asia is home to crazes and fashions that take off nowhere else. It’s important to be acquainted with them if one is to truly know Asia — they are of interest to large segments of the region’s population. Huge resources are devoted to these otherwise obscure markets. Here is a selection of a few from fish to food to furniture. And then there are the movies, high on drama, low on character development, to match the region’s love of spectacle and ornamentation.
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Backman, M. (2005). Flowerhorn Fish, Huanghuali, Zi Beads, and Bollywood. In: Inside Knowledge. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230522398_20
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