As the fieldwork was based in Beijing, not all the conclusions can be generalised to the middle class in the other metropolitan cities or to the whole of the middle class in China.
It looked as though MPs, indeed the whole of the political class, could leave Westminster with a reasonable idea of where policy stood.
That would seem to be at odds with what the whole of the political class, including Cameron's Conservatives, learned from Thatcherism.
In fact, you have to wonder whether, if she was male and American and the book was twice as heavy, she wouldn't have the whole of the chattering classes falling at her feet.
With the whole of the metropolitan middle class (as represented by the leader writers of the Guardian, the Independent and Observer) against it and a rabid Tory press determined to destroy Gordon Brown, astonishingly the Labour party base rallied.
At the close of the Time of Troubles, the bureaucracy's functions were exercised by leading boyars and professional administrators; by Peter's time the mercantile class, the whole of the nobility, and the clergy had become part of its ubiquitous network.
"I just dumped him, in front of the whole class; the class was just shocked.
(Looking back, I wonder if that might have been the whole point of the class).
Scott Solberg, a Chicago lawyer who represents petrochemical companies, says the whole purpose of the class action is to provide an effective and efficient way to deal with claims, allowing companies to assess their financial risk and go on with business.
Usually when they observe, I would immediately feel the whole energy of the class change.
