YORK, Maine — Somewhere in Shanghai, a Chinese family is delving into a Boston lobster — and paying as much as $100 for the sumptuous meal.

With a booming economy, the burgeoning middle class in China has developed a taste for the rich meat of the North Atlantic crustacean, known in the Far East as Boston lobster, even though many of them are pulled from the cold waters off of Maine and shipped overseas from Tom Adams’s loading dock in York.

China has imported some $40 million of the hard red shells, mostly from Maine and Massachusetts, and Adams’s company, Maine Coast Lobster, is booming since he decided to specialize in exporting Maine’s signature seafood.

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