China’s potential as a land of shoppers was spotted long before Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Tiffany began erecting megastores in its biggest cities. An Englishman, writing in 1840, noted: “If we could only persuade every person in China to lengthen his shirttail by a foot, we could keep the mills of Lancashire working round the clock.”
早在香奈兒(Chanel)、路易威登(Louis Vuitton)和蒂芙尼(Tiffany)在一些中國大城市開設超大型門店之前，人們就發現了中國作爲購物大國的潛力。1840年，一個英國人曾在書中寫道：「如果我們能夠說服所有中國人把他們的襯衣下襬加長一英尺，我們就能夠讓蘭開夏的工廠晝夜不停地運轉。」
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