Chinese in Tiffany + Funerary Handbags

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(1) Alan Rappeport, Chinese Tourists Fuel 30% Tiffany Sales Rise; Demand for luxury gems defies gloom. Financial Times, Aug 27, 2011
(paragraph 1: "Jewellery-hungry Chinese tourists fuelled a surge in US sales at Tiffany this summer, helping the luxury retailer produce robust second-quarter profits in spite of a weak economic backdrop")

(2) Jeffrey E Singer and Corey Kilgannon, Yes, He Sold Counterfeits. Which They're Supposed to Be. Paper stand-ins burned to ensure the dead a luxurious hereafter. New York Times, Aug 25, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/nyregion/chinatown-funeral-goods-bring-copyright-infringement-arrest.html?scp=1&sq=Kilgannon,%20Yes,%20He%20Sold%20Counterfeits.&st=cse
(An undercover cop went in a shop in New York 's Chinatown, bought goods, and arrested the owner for copyright infringement by selling funerary goods, such as $20 handbags made of cardboard "that have print designs that vaguely resemble Louis Vuitton’s and Gucci’s")

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