Development of Consumer Societies: comparison between the East and the West

在研究成果报告中，我写了两篇文章，一篇是关于欧洲纺织印花的发展及其与东方纺织品的关系，另一篇是关于英国经济增长及其衰退的更大框架。在第一篇文章中，重点强调了产品创新和工艺创新的重要性；前者是消费社会的特征。在第二篇文章中，我强调了消费在西部经济发展中的重要贡献。希望第一篇文章将扩展为一篇较长的文章，发表在一些学术期刊上。

In the report of research results I wrote two essays: one on the development of textile printing in Europe and its relationship with the Eastern textiles, the other on the broader framework of British economic growth and its decline. In the first essay emphasis are stressed on the importance of product innovations as well as process innovations; the former were the characteristics of the consumer society. In the second essay, I emphasized an important contribution of consumption in the economic development of the west. It is hoped that the first essay will be expanded to a longer article for some learned journal.