Beschreibung:
This book examines, in a culturally and contextually sensitive way, the particularity of what it means to be young in post-Mao China undergoing rapid and dramatic transformation by comparing childhood and youth experiences over three generations.
1 Introduction. 2 Modernization and social change. 3 The rise of the 'priceless' Chinese child: childhood in three generations. 4 Daxue as the norm: the rise of the Chinese 'schooled society' over three generations. 5 The aspiring male individual: the rise of chenggong as a new hegemonic masculine ideal. 6 The aspiring female individual: 'wanting to have it all' as a new female ideal. 7 An expressive turn with a Chinese twist: young people's other-sex relations in three generations. Conclusion: the maximization desire: living modernization the Chinese way.