China's Youth: Increasing Diversity Amid Persistent Inequality

ISBN-13: 9780815739364 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 399 str.

Li, Chunling

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• Foreword by John L. Thornton
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: China's Millennials: Navigating Socioeconomic Diversity and Disparity in a Digital Era by Cheng Li
• 1. Social Transformation and Youth Studies in China: A Review of Sociological Research from the Past Decade
• 2. Children of the 1980s: Formative Experiences and Changing Circumstances
• 3. An Emerging Silent Revolution?: Shifting Values among the Post-1980s and Post-1990s Generations
• 4. The Urban-Rural Divide
• 5. Educational Inequality in the Post-1980s Generation
• 6. China's Millennial NEETs
• 7. A Tightening Labor Market for College Graduates: A 2013 Survey of Twelve Schools
• 8. Housing Conditions of Employed Youth in Beijing: A 2014 Survey
• 9. The Reversal of the Gender Balance in Education, and Its Challenges
• 10. The Widening Income Gap: Market Competition or Gender Discrimination?
• 11. Gender Inequality in Education: The Role of Family Background
• 12. Consumption Power and Patterns of the Chinese Middle Class
• 13. Consumption Trends and Behavioral Changes among Urban White-Collar Youth in the Era of WeChat
• 14. Group Characteristics of China's Youth and Triggering Factors for Potential Sociopolitical Unrest
• 15. Intergenerational Differences in National Identity
• 16. Today's Generation: Witnessing China's Rise on the World Stage
• Further Readings
• Notes
• Index