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China's Millennials

The Want Generation
  • ISBN-13: 9781442272491
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
  • By Eric Fish
  • Price: AUD $76.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/10/2016
  • Format: Paperback 268 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Asian history [HBJF]
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In 1989, students marched on Tiananmen Square demanding democratic reform. The Communist Party responded with a massacre, but it was jolted into restructuring the economy and overhauling the education of its young citizens. A generation later, Chinese youth are a world apart from those who converged at Tiananmen. Brought up with lofty expectations, they've been accustomed to unprecedented opportunities on the back of China's economic boom. But today, China's growth is slowing and its demographics rapidly shifting, with the boom years giving way to a painful hangover. Immersed in this transition, Eric Fish, a millennial himself, profiles youth from around the country and how they are navigating the education system, the workplace, divisive social issues, and a resurgence in activism. Based on interviews with scholars, journalists, and hundreds of young Chinese, his engrossing book challenges the idea that today's youth have been pacified by material comforts and nationalism. Following rural Henan students struggling to get into college, a computer prodigy who sparked a nationwide patriotic uproar, and young social activists grappling with authorities, Fish deftly captures youthful struggle, disillusionment, and rebellion in a system that is scrambling to keep them in line-and, increasingly, scrambling to adapt when its youth refuse to conform.
I: GETTING EDUCATED 1 Boot Camp 2 The Test 3 The University 4 The Patriots II: GOING TO WORK 5 Factory Town 6 The Ants 7 The Golden Rice Bowl 8 The Entrepreneurs III: COPING 9 The Leftovers 10 Eating Bitterness 11 Finding Faith IV: PUSHING BACK 12 The Social Activists 13 The Environmentalists 14 The Journalists 15 Generations Notes
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