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Back in 2010 I attended a forum organized by an old-world prestigious group that focused on dissecting the attitudes of modern Chinese affluent consumers and their tastes and needs from luxury. It was unforgettable. The key speaker was an older French gentleman. He arrived with a young assistant who carried his monogrammed case. The assistant extracted his speech, which had been prepared on sheets of thick cream paper, from that case. We were...