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Every high growth era is defined by the abundance of "new adopters" - people who do not have habits or who are willing to change their habits. What happens with
by spyckie2 9y ago
Every high growth era is defined by the abundance of "new adopters" - people who do not have habits or who are willing to change their habits. What happens with populations is that they do things a certain way for long enough periods of time that they don't want to do it another way.
This has little to do with Chinese policy, and a lot to do with the fact that Chinese life is moving from extremely rural/poor to middle class and thus, had no prior opportunities to do things like reading physical books, so no habits or preexisting preferences to overcome.
- echevil 9y agoIn what age did Chinese had no opportunities to read physical books? That was at least half a century back
- spyckie2 9y agoI meant, reading physical books as a recreational activity because you're living on a farm with subsistence wages and lack the income or time to do so. China was a country with 750 million people living on less than $2 a day in 1990. Not to mention the burning of books and disdaining of intellectual pursuit in the cultural revolution.