Young Chinese and new millennium urban China
By: Alex Cockain
Series: Routledge studies on China in transition -- 42; Routledge studies on China in transition -- 42.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780415677578; 9780203155417
Subjects: Social conditions; Urban youth; City and town life; History
Description: "This book examines the condition of being a young person in China and the way in which changes in various dimensions of urban life have affected Chinese youths' quest to understand themselves."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : moving on from images of Red Guards, the tank man and little emperors; title: Experiencing neighbourhoods; title: Ambivalence and tactics for coping with the tensions of metropolitan life; title: Bricolaic national and international orientations; title: Intergenerational dynamics; title: Ambivalence toward secondary education and the bitterness of the gaokao; title: Engagements with traditional media; title: The Internet in everyday life; title: Online carnival.