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Young Chinese in urban China [electronic resource] / Alex Cockain.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Routledge studies on China in transition ; 42.Publication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012.Description: xiii, 209 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780203155417
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
1. Introduction : moving on from images of Red Guards, the tank man and little emperors -- 2. Experiencing neighbourhoods -- 3. Ambivalence and tactics for coping with the tensions of metropolitan life -- 4. Bricolaic national and international orientations -- 5. Intergenerational dynamics -- 6. Ambivalence toward secondary education and the bitterness of the gaokao -- 7. Engagements with traditional media -- 8. The Internet in everyday life -- 9. Online carnival.
Summary: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-201) and index.

1. Introduction : moving on from images of Red Guards, the tank man and little emperors -- 2. Experiencing neighbourhoods -- 3. Ambivalence and tactics for coping with the tensions of metropolitan life -- 4. Bricolaic national and international orientations -- 5. Intergenerational dynamics -- 6. Ambivalence toward secondary education and the bitterness of the gaokao -- 7. Engagements with traditional media -- 8. The Internet in everyday life -- 9. Online carnival.

"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.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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