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China's New Youth

Author : Alec Ash
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1950691721
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book China's New Youth written by Alec Ash and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Paints a telling portrait of this most restless generation raised in a system that has provided them with unprecedented personal opportunities while denying them political ones. . . . A gifted observer.”—Washington Post "Informative and often humorous . . . Presents a refreshing range of perspectives about being twenty-something in China."—Forbes “Masterfully crafted.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “A perceptive and quietly profound book.”—Booklist, starred review "Compelling and beautifully written."—Prospect China’s new youth are the generation that will change China. Offspring of the one-child policy, with no memory of Tiananmen, they are destined to transform both their nation and the world. Understanding their motivations, dreams, and attitudes is possibly the most important gauge of China’s future direction as it plays an increasingly important role in shaping this century. China’s New Youth follows the lives of six young Chinese as they navigate their aspirations, discontents, politics, and love lives. Their stories include a netizen nationalist, a country migrant, the daughter of a Party member, a rising pop star, and a feminist entrepreneur. With intimate access to this diverse generation, Alec Ash—a young writer based in China since 2012—gives a vivid, immersive, fascinating account of young China as it comes of age. China's New Youth was originally published in hardcover until the title Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China. The new paperback edition has been updated with a new preface and afterword by the author and a new foreword by Karoline Kan.

Wish Lanterns

Author : Alec Ash
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628727659
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Wish Lanterns written by Alec Ash and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ash’s book paints a telling portrait of this most restless generation raised in a system that has provided them with unprecedented personal opportunities while denying them political ones . . . A gifted observer.”—Washington Post If China will rule the world one day, who will rule China? There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with no memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre, they are the first net native generation to come of age in a market-driven, more international China. Their experiences and aspirations were formed in a radically different country from the one that shaped their elders, and their lives will decide the future of their nation and its place in the world. Wish Lanterns offers a deep dive into the life stories of six young Chinese. Dahai is a military child, netizen, and self-styled loser. Xiaoxiao is a hipster from the freezing north. “Fred,” born on the tropical southern island of Hainan, is the daughter of a Party official, while Lucifer is a would-be international rock star. Snail is a country boy and Internet gaming addict, and Mia is a fashionista rebel from far west Xinjiang. Following them as they grow up, go to college, find work and love, all the while navigating the pressure of their parents and society, Wish Lanterns paints a vivid portrait of Chinese youth culture and of a millennial generation whose struggles and dreams reflect the larger issues confronting China today.

Far East Chinese for Youth Level 2 (Simplified Character) 遠東少年中文(簡體版)(第二冊) (課本)

Author : Wei-ling Wu
Publisher : The Far East Book Co Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9576124921
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Far East Chinese for Youth Level 2 (Simplified Character) 遠東少年中文(簡體版)(第二冊) (課本) written by Wei-ling Wu and published by The Far East Book Co Ltd. This book was released on 2001 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China

Author : Anne Behnke Kinney
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804747318
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (473 download)

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Book Synopsis Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China by : Anne Behnke Kinney

Download or read book Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China written by Anne Behnke Kinney and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in any language to inquire into the emergence of childhood as a topic of significant cultural attention in Han times, as expressed in the intellectual discourse surrounding early Chinese cosmology, medicine, law, statecraft, and dynastic history.

Youth Cultures in China

Author : Jeroen de Kloet
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509512985
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Youth Cultures in China written by Jeroen de Kloet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be young in a country that is changing so fast? What does it mean to be young in a place ruled by one Party, during a time of intense globalization and exposure to different cultures? This fascinating and informative book explores the lives of Chinese youth and examines their experiences, the ways in which they are represented in the media, and their interactions with old and, especially, new media. The authors describe and analyze complex entanglements among family, school, workplace and the state, engaging with the multiplicity of Chinese youth cultures. Their case studies include, among others, the romantic fantasies articulated by pop idols in TV dramas in contrast with young students working hard for their entrance exams and dream careers. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of youth culture, the sociology of youth and China studies more broadly. By showing how Chinese youth negotiate these regimes by carving out their own temporary spaces – from becoming a goldfarmer in a virtual economy to performing as a cosplayer – this book ultimately poses the question: Will the current system be able to accommodate this rapidly increasing diversity?

Urban Youth in China

Author : Fengshu Liu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136840508
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Urban Youth in China written by Fengshu Liu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As both youth and the Internet hold the potential to inflict far-reaching economic, social, cultural, and political changes, this book fulfills a pressing need for a systematical investigation of the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China.

China’s Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces

Author : Vanessa Frangville
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429509030
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Book Synopsis China’s Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces by : Vanessa Frangville

Download or read book China’s Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces written by Vanessa Frangville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the collaborative work of 13 international specialists of contemporary Chinese culture and society, this book explores the spaces of creation, production, and diffusion of "youth cultures" in China among generations born since the 1980s. Defining the concept of "youth culture" as practices and activities that catalyze self-expression and creativity, this book investigates the emergence of new physical spaces, including large avenues, parks, shopping malls, and recreation areas. Building on this, it also examines the influence of non-physical places, especially digital cultures, such as online social networks, shopping platforms, Cosplay, cyberliterature, and digital calligraphy and argues that these may in fact play a more significant role in Chinese civil society today. As an exploration of how youth can be creative even in a coercive environment, China’s Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces will be valuable to students and scholars of Chinese society, as well those working on the links between space, youth, and culture.

Young China

Author : Zak Dychtwald
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250078814
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Young China written by Zak Dychtwald and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, who is in his twenties and fluent in Chinese, intimately examines the future of China through the lens of the Jiu Ling Hou—the generation born after 1990—exploring through personal encounters how his Chinese peers feel about everything from money and marriage to their government and the West

Educated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China

Author : Martin Singer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901559
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Educated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China written by Martin Singer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cultural Revolution was an emotionally charged political awakening for the educated youth of China. Called upon by aging revolutionary Mao Tse-tung to assume a “vanguard” role in his new revolution to eliminate bourgeois revisionist influence in education, politics, and the arts, and to help to establish proletarian culture, habits, and customs, in a new Chinese society, educated young Chinese generally accepted this opportunity for meaningful and dramatic involvement in Chinese affairs. It also gave them the opportunity to gain recognition as a viable and responsible part of the Chinese polity. In the end, these revolutionary youths were not successful in proving their reliability. Too “idealistic” to compromise with the bourgeois way, their sense of moral rectitude also made it impossible for them to submerge their factional differences with other revolutionary mass organizations to achieve unity and consolidate proletarian victories. Many young revolutionaries were bitterly disillusioned by their own failures and those of other segments of the Chinese population and by the assignment of recent graduates to labor in rural communes. Educated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China reconstructs the events of the Cultural Revolution as they affected young people. Martin Singer integrates material from a range of factors and effects, including the characteristics of this generation of youths, the roles Mao called them to play, their resentment against the older generation, their membership in mass organizations, the educational system in which they were placed, and their perception that their skills were underutilized. To most educated young people in China, Singer concludes, the Cultural Revolution represented a traumatic and irreversible loss of political innocence, made yet more tragic by its allegiance to the unsuccessful campaign of an old revolutionary to preserve his legacy from the inevitable storms of history.

The Chinese Communist Youth League

Author : TSIMONIS
Publisher : China: From Revolution to Reform
ISBN 13 : 9789462989863
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Communist Youth League written by TSIMONIS and published by China: From Revolution to Reform. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2003, President Hu Jintao instructed Communist Youth League cadres to 'keep the Party assured and the Youth satisfied'. This laconic recognition that winning the support of Chinese youth requires a more responsive engagement with their interests and demands, provided the League with a new youth work mandate to increase its capacity for responsiveness. This original investigation uses a combination of interviews, surveys and ethnography to examine the often contradictory and self-defeating ways the League implemented this mandate locally and nationally. By doing so, it also sheds light on Xi Jinping's decision to downgrade it politically and organizationally in 2016. This book introduces a previously unexplored organization and develops 'juniority' as a conceptual tool that captures the ways generational power is institutionalized and fuels youth political apathy. For this reason, apart from China scholars, this study will be of particular interest to those working on comparative youth politics and sociology.

Youth Culture in Chinese Language Film

Author : Xuelin Zhou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131719411X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Youth Culture in Chinese Language Film written by Xuelin Zhou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the vigorous film cultures of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong from the perspective of youth culture. The book relates this important topic to the wider social, cultural, and institutional context, and discusses the relationship between the films and the changes that today are transforming each society. Among the areas explored are the differences between the three film industries, their creation of new types of screen hero and heroine, and their conflicts with traditional Chinese attitudes such as respect for age. The many films discussed provide fresh perspectives on the ways in which young people are coping with gender, sexuality, class, coming of age, the pressures of education, and major social shifts such as rural to urban migration. They show young adults in each society striving to construct new value systems for a complex, rapidly changing environment.

Youth Policies and Services in Chinese Societies

Author : Steven Sek-yum Ngai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317751728
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Youth Policies and Services in Chinese Societies written by Steven Sek-yum Ngai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, much of youth research in Chinese societies has sought to understand the transformation of the younger generation and their social environment in the context of globalization, deindustrialization and economic insecurity. The epochal events of the global economic transformation and financial crisis, along with long-term Chinese social trends such as rising unemployment, income disparity, and migration, are in the process of creating new structural relations between young people and related social actors. Accordingly, this book charts the current conditions of youth services and policies in Chinese societies by examining case studies in Beijing, Jinan, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Hong Kong. The chapters address the related issues stemming from unemployment, volunteering, internal migration, economic disadvantages, school social work, and leadership training. Through comparative analyses of the aforementioned issues, the collection highlights contemporary issues in Chinese youth policies and services, including work commitment, social inclusion, social support from family and teachers, volunteering, and leadership training. The book argues that the strengthening of empowerment and social inclusion in Chinese youth services offers a solution to problems of alienation, powerlessness, and underclass status. The quest for social inclusion therefore merits renewed attention in the youth policies and services of Chinese societies. This was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Adolescence and Youth.

The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China

Author : Guobin Yang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231520484
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China written by Guobin Yang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a political mythology that encouraged violence as a way to prove one's revolutionary credentials. This same competitive dynamic would later turn the Red Guard against the communist government. Throughout the 1970s, the majority of Red Guard youth were sent to work in rural villages, where they developed an appreciation for the values of ordinary life. From this experience, an underground cultural movement was born. Rejecting idolatry, these relocated revolutionaries developed a new form of resistance that signaled a new era of enlightenment, culminating in the Democracy Wall movement of the late 1970s and the Tiananmen protest of 1989. Yang's final chapter on the politics of history and memory argues that contemporary memories of the Cultural Revolution are factionalized along these lines of political division, formed fifty years before.

Passage to Manhood

Author : Shao-hua Liu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804770255
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Passage to Manhood written by Shao-hua Liu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passage to Manhood is a groundbreaking and beautifully written ethnography that addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and AIDS as they intersect in a new "rite-of-passage" among young ethnic-minority males in contemporary China.

Youth and Internet Addiction in China

Author : Trent Bax
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135096953
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Youth and Internet Addiction in China written by Trent Bax and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A form of 'electronic opium' is how some people have characterised young people’s internet use in China. The problem of 'internet addiction' (wangyin) is seen by some parents as so severe that they have sought psychiatric help for their children. This book, which is based on extensive original research, including discussions with psychiatrists, parents and 'internet-addicted' young people, explores the conflicting attitudes which this issue reveals. It contrasts the views of young people who see internet use, especially gaming, as a welcome escape from the dehumanising pressures of contemporary Chinese life, with the approach of those such as their parents, who medicalise internet overuse and insist that working hard for good school grades is the correct way to progress. The author shows that these contrasting attitudes lead to battles which are often fierce and violent, and argues that the greater problem may in fact lie with parents and other authority figures, who misguidedly apply high pressure to enforce young people to conform to the empty values of a modern, dehumanised consumer-oriented society.

Youth Culture in China

Author : Paul Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107379237
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Youth Culture in China written by Paul Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives and aspirations of young Chinese (those between 14 and 26 years old) have been transformed in the past five decades. By examining youth cultures around three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - this book argues that present-day youth culture in China has both international and local roots. Paul Clark describes how the Red Guards and the sent-down youth of the Cultural Revolution era carved out a space for themselves, asserting their distinctive identities, despite tight political controls. By the late 1980s, Chinese-style rock music, sports and other recreations began to influence the identities of Chinese youth, and in the twenty-first century, the Internet offers a new, broader space for expressing youthful fandom and frustrations. From the 1960s to the present, this book shows how youth culture has been reworked to serve the needs of the young Chinese.

Across the Great Divide

Author : Emily Honig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108498736
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Across the Great Divide written by Emily Honig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of China's sent-down youth movement uses archival research to revise popular notions about power dynamics during the Cultural Revolution.