Geographical Critiques and Research Implications of the Booming Milk-Tea Economy in China
Received date: 2021-08-31
Revised date: 2021-11-22
Online published: 2025-03-31
Recent years have seen a crazy expansion of milk tea stores in China, leaving a lot of ridiculous and unimaginable consummation behaviors and phenomenon. The viewpoint discusses three topics about the expanding milk tea economy from the perspectives of economic geography and cultural geography: the reasons for the expansion of milk tea economies, the implications of milk tea economies for urban development, and research topics on geographies of milk tea economies. It is argued that the boom of milk tea economies in China is not only resulted from the material value of milk tea as a drink product, but more because of that it is socially constructed as a symbol consumption, which satisfied consumers' social, cultural and psychological needs in the current consumption society. With the help of internet and new media technologies, the profit-driven nature of capital has enlarged the popularity of mile tea culture, rendering increasing consumers dropped into the eddy of milk tea economies. The popularity of milk tea drink signs in the internet time the emergence of new consumption culture characterized by symbolization and socialization. The implications of the new consumption culture for the development of urban economies, city branding and cultural creative industries are discussed. Lastly, the viewpoint discusses some research topics on milk tea economies from the economic geography perspective by focusing on the relationship between the materiality of milk tea and corporative and regional competitiveness, local industry evolution, city branding, and the rise and fall of milk tea brands.
HUANG Gengzhi , WU Kang , DAI Juncheng , LIU Chen , YAO Changcheng , TANG Jingxian , ZHANG Xu , HU Xiaohui . Geographical Critiques and Research Implications of the Booming Milk-Tea Economy in China[J]. Economic geography, 2021 , 41(12) : 1 -11 . DOI: 10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2021.12.001
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