In 1989, students marched on Tiananmen Square demanding democratic reform. The Communist Party responded with a massacre, but it was jolted into restructuring the economy and overhauling the education of its young citizens. A generation later, Chinese youth are a world apart from those who converged at Tiananmen. Brought up with lofty expectations, they ve been accustomed to unprecedented opportunities on the back of China s economic boom. But today, China s growth is slowing and its demographics rapidly shifting, with the boom years giving way to a painful hangover. Immersed in this...
In 1989, students marched on Tiananmen Square demanding democratic reform. The Communist Party responded with a massacre, but it was jolted into restr...