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Bobos in Shangri-La.
Just when China's new affluents have begun to enjoy their xiaozi, or bourgeois, lifestyle (a downtown apartment, flashy automobiles and Starbucks mochaccinos), along comes a book from America to stir up their latte lifestyles. In recent months young Chinese have been snapping up copies of the newly translated version of 2000's "Bobos in Paradise," by American author David Brooks. The book's thesis--that the bohemian spirit of the 1960s has come together with the acquisitive impulses of the 1980s to create the hybrid bourgeois-bohemian, a.k.a. the Bobo--has sparked debate all around China. "All my friends are talking about the Bobos," one Beijing book shopper told the official Xinhua News Agency. Clubs have been formed offering lectures and discussions on the Bobo lifestyle, and Bobo magazines are appearing on newsstands. Chinese Bobos are being targeted by everyone from real-estate agents to mobile-phone companies. A local businessman opened the DIY@Bobo Bar in Beijing, which is fitted with computers so customers ...
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...says, you might be a Bobo. If you're not...can identify several Bobos among clients or prospects...affluent in genera l and Bobos in particular. Unfortunately...brokerage offices are not Bobo friendly. The dark...Barn. Dress like a Bobo, too, choosing clothing...As Brooks says, ...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek Brooks, David April 3, 2000 700+ words
...two letters of those words, they are Bobos. For my book, "Bobos in Paradise," I spent a few years investigating this Bobo culture that began in upscale America...the bohemian. In some sense, this Bobo culture is the final resting spot for...
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- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review PHILLIPS, TOM April 1, 2001 700+ words
...ish predecessors, Bobos operate a strict social...minded. Even the Bobo sado-masochists...guide for budding Bobo intellectuals are...on Montana -- the Bobos' adopted spiritual...political life. 'Bobos have begun to create...good to live in a Bobo world'. To be fair...
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- Newspaper article from: Newsday (Melville, NY) April 7, 2006 700+ words
...the next episode. The bobos' job duties are somewhat...the word. Bonds and the bobos apparently want some serious...20: The more muscular bobo tells a couple of writers...that all of Bonds' many bobos have shaved heads or are...who appears to be lead bobo, is rubbing Bonds' knees...
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- Magazine article from: Washington Monthly Shuger, Scott May 1, 2000 700+ words
...and things that attract bobos. He's done his time...because he is ... well, a bobo. It's Brooks' appreciation...because in the hands of the bobos, such useful public work...Brooks, to the fundamental bobo angst: Intellectual horsepower...government, and church, bobos also find themselves ...
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- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Neuhaus, Richard August 1, 2001 700+ words
...observation about the morality of Bobos, that theirs is "a house of...the culture war is over for Bobos. It is kept going by organizations...others pointed out that the Bobo world is more fragile than it...introduces a man to himself." Bobos are more than a little like...
- Bobos in Paradise.(Review)
- Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics LEVINSON, MARTIN H. March 22, 2001 700+ words
...conformity and acquisition. He says Bobos have replaced WASPS as society...Starbucks coffee. Brooks also says Bobos are spiritually complacent...read this chapter. I found Bobos in Paradise to be a most informative...we live. Whether you are a Bobo, aspire to be one, or yearn...
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- Magazine article from: Whole Earth March 22, 2002 700+ words
...Schuster Paradise for the Bobo, or "bourgeois bohemian...appeared in 2000. Bobos in Paradise is an...to sting. Still, Bobos in Paradise is the...on the stifling Bobo ideal of a good time...of the 1980s. "We Bobos have taken the bourgeois...been replaced by the Bobo Play Ethic, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Bobos in Shangri-La.