China's a joker in the pack.  the agrarian countryside is in ongoing intermittent rebellion over corruption, industrial pollution and land abuse, diversion of water resources, etc.   but the urban fringe seems to be drifting into the same la-la consumer fantasyland that much of the affluent industrialised polities now live in:  the Jetsons script is playing well among the Chinese nouveaux riches as previous posts have noted, and the gummint seems deeply split between the Henry Fordists (damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead, carburbs and luxury sedans lead to national pre-eminence) and the worried environmentally conscious planners.

I note that China is busily, hastily developing its own neocolonial periphery to loot, in Africa (see recent frontpage article on China/Africa issues) as the Anglo/Fordist industrial model requires.  its own national resources other than coal are pretty much stripped, and neighbouring states are either armed or already annexed by other powers.

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...