From rags to cigarette lighters (and dildos and property too)

摘要

The southern coastal city of Wenzhou can make many claims to entrepreneurial fame. Isolated and impoverished just 25 years ago, its privately owned factories have come to dominate the Chinese market for products ranging from felt-tip pens to sex toys. It makes most of the metal cigarette-lighters sold in the world, and some of the dildos. Yet for all China's barely concealed adulation of capitalism, Wenzhou's brand of it makes many Chinese uneasy.