英格兰西北部的兰开夏郡,是19世纪与20世纪早期大英帝国称雄世界时的全球工业中心。那里的制造业和棉纺业产品行销整个世界,工业城市曼彻斯特与利物浦就像今天的旧金山和西雅图一样闻名于世。兰开夏工业巨子曾经把眼睛盯着中国,并且说,在这个世界人口最多的国家里,“如果每个人的衣袖长一中国只是产品的加工者,不是真正的制造者和所有者;不是中国用别人的牌子来生产,而是别人用中国的劳工来赚钱。寸,就够兰开夏的纺织厂吃一年”。但那时,中国衰弱不堪,除了官僚阶层、洋行买办或贵妇阔佬之外,平民百姓有谁穿得起舶来品?城镇妇女能有一两身国产“阴丹士林布”做的旗袍或短袄就算不错了。然而,百年兴衰弹指一挥间。如今世界上大概很少有人还记得起兰开夏或曼彻斯特的名字。“Made inEngland”的牌子已是凤毛麟角,而“中国制造”的产品正 Lancashire, in the northwest of England, was the global industrial center of the British Empire in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Where manufacturing and cotton products are sold throughout the world, the industrial cities of Manchester and Liverpool are as famous as today’s San Francisco and Seattle. The Lancashire industrial giant once stared at China, and said that in the world’s most populous country, “if everyone’s sleeve is long, China is only the processor of the product, not the real manufacturer and owner; It is not that China uses other people’s brands to produce, but that others use China’s labor to make money. Inch, it is enough for Lancashire’s textile mills to eat for a year. But at that time, China was in a weak state. Apart from the bureaucracy, foreign compradors, or noble women, who could wear affordable goods for the civilian population? Town women could have one or two Chinese-made “Indanthropean” cheongsam or Short-billed is not bad. However, one hundred years of booming and falling is a wave. Few people in the world still remember the names of Lancashire or Manchester. ”Made inEngland“ brand is rare and ”Made in China" product is