One Billion Shoppers: After the Meltdown--Asia's Consuming Passions and Future Market Trends

by Paul French

By the year 2000, Asians will constitute over half the world's population, including one billion people with purchasing power on-par with their middle-class counterparts in North American and Western Europe.

308 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1998

About the author

PAUL FRENCH was born in London and lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. His book Midnight in Pekingwas a New York Times bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He received the Mystery Writers’ of America Edgar award for Best Fact Crime and a Crime Writers’ Association (UK) Dagger award for non-fiction. His book City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir received much praise with The Economist writing, ‘…in Mr French the city has its champion storyteller.’ Both Midnight in Peking and City of Devils are currently in development for film.