Understanding luxury consumption in China: Consumer perceptions of best-known brands
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☆ The authors gratefully acknowledge financial sup Science Foundation of China (08CTQ008), the National China (70832001, 70902017), the Shanghai Pujiang Ta Competitive Research Grant from Hong Kong Polytech authors thank two anonymous reviewers and the gue Megehee, for their insightful comments on content acknowledge the revision suggestions by Alison Lloyd version of this article. ⁎ Corresponding author. Tel.: +86 21 2501 1200. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (L. Zhan), (Y. He). 1 The authors contributed equally to this paper. 2 Tel.: +852 3400 3949.
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