It’s a hot august afternoon in Beijing, and student Li Yanan is shopping with a friend at the Joy City mall, in the city’s Xicheng district. The mall offers plenty of Western brand-name stores — Quiksilver, Levi’s, French Connection — all looking much as they do in other malls around the world. But Li, 20, […]

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