Lafite in China: Media Representations of ‘Wine Culture’ in New Markets
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Increased economic power has positioned China within the global elite, yet China’s legitimacy remains low with regard to hierarchies of taste. Drawing from Bourdieu and Elias, the paper offers an account of the global dynamics of status contests, and the role played by cultural capital and notions of civility and vulgarity. Specifically, we examine how U.S., UK and Chinese media represent Chinese consumption of fine wine, and particularly that of Château Lafite, in the 2000 to 2013 period. Our analysis reveals four major ways in which Chinese fine wine consumption is framed (as vulgar, popular, functional, discerning), and highlights tensions between Western and Chinese terms of cultural legitimacy. The paper uncovers nuanced dimensions to the “East/West” divide in terms of the grades of cultural capital, competing logics of valuation and modes of civility at play. Macromarketing implications of fine wine consumption in a fragmented and complex market are discussed.
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