Sociology Of Chinese Youth
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Author |
: Tom Dwyer |
Publisher |
: World Scientific |
Total Pages |
: 1141 |
Release |
: 2017-11-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789813148406 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9813148403 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Handbook Of The Sociology Of Youth In Brics Countries by : Tom Dwyer
Youth are, by definition, the future. This book brings initial analyses to bear on youth in the five BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which are home to nearly half of the world's youth. Very little is known about these youth outside of their own countries since the mainstream views on 'youth' and 'youth culture' are derived from the available literature on youth in the industrialized West, which is home to a small part of the world's youth. This book aims to help fill in this gap.The handbook examines the state of youth, their past, present and permits the development of insights about future. The BRICS countries have all engaged in development processes and some remarkable improvements in young people's lives over recent decades are documented. However, the chapters also show that these gains can be undermined by instabilities, poor decisions and external factors in those countries. Periods of economic growth, political progress, cultural opening up and subsequent reversals rearticulate differently in each society. The future of youth is sharply impacted by recent transformations of economic, political and social realities. As new opportunities emerge and the influence of tradition on youth's lifestyles weakens and as their norms and values change, the youth enter into conflict with dominant expectations and power structures.The topics covered in the book include politics, education, health, employment, leisure, Internet, identities, inequalities and demographics. The chapters provide original insights into the development of the BRICS countries, and place the varied mechanisms of youth development in context. This handbook serves as a reference to those who are interested in having a better understanding of today's youth. Readers will become acquainted with many issues that are faced today by young people and understand that through fertile dialogues and cooperation, youth can play a role in shaping the future of the world.
Author |
: Liang Su |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 123 |
Release |
: 2022-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004538375 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004538372 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sociology of Chinese Youth by : Liang Su
The sociology of Chinese youth is introduced through different topics: internal migration, youth and education in China, the Chinese family, urban life, labor and the search for respect, and digital life in China.
Author |
: Lijun Chen |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: 2018-12-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429627736 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429627734 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Child and Youth Well-being in China by : Lijun Chen
The true measure of any society is how it treats its children, who are in turn that society’s future. Making use of data from the longitudinal Chinese Family Panel Studies survey, the authors of this timely study provide a multi-faceted description and analysis of China’s younger generations. They assess the economic, physical, and social-emotional well-being as well as the cognitive performance and educational attainment of China's children and youth. They pay special attention to the significance of family and community contexts, including the impact of parental absence on millions of left-behind children. Throughout the volume, the authors delineate various forms of disparities, especially the structural inequalities maintained by the Chinese Party-state and the vulnerabilities of children and youth in fragile families and communities. They also analyze the social attitudes and values of Chinese youth. Having grown up in a period of sustained prosperity and greater individual choice, the younger Chinese cohorts are more independent in spirit, more open-minded socially, and significantly less deferential to authority than older cohorts. There is growing recognition in China of the importance of investing in children’s future and of helping the less advantaged. Substantial improvements in child and youth well-being have been achieved in a time of growing economic prosperity. Strong political commitment is needed to sustain existing efforts and to overcome the many obstacles that remain. This book will be of considerable interest to researchers of Chinese society and development.
Author |
: Fengshu Liu |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2011-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136840500 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136840508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urban Youth in China by : Fengshu Liu
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.
Author |
: Vanessa Frangville |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 431 |
Release |
: 2019-09-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429509032 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429509030 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis China’s Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces by : Vanessa Frangville
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.
Author |
: Jeroen de Kloet |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 187 |
Release |
: 2016-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509512980 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509512985 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Youth Cultures in China by : Jeroen de Kloet
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?
Author |
: Steven Sek-yum Ngai |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 171 |
Release |
: 2018-02-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317751724 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317751728 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Youth Policies and Services in Chinese Societies by : Steven Sek-yum Ngai
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.
Author |
: Paul Clark |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2012-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107379237 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107379237 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Youth Culture in China by : Paul Clark
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.
Author |
: Martin Singer |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 123 |
Release |
: 2020-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472901555 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0472901559 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Educated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China by : Martin Singer
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.
Author |
: Xuelin Zhou |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 207 |
Release |
: 2016-08-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317194118 |
ISBN-13 |
: 131719411X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Youth Culture in Chinese Language Film by : Xuelin Zhou
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.