To develop and construct an optimal career is one of the major challenges for youths in many societies. This book provides an intriguing account of the process how a group of college-track students in Taiwan constructed their careers in this modern society with the Confucian tradition. The process can be characterized as a dynamic interaction between tsi-chi (self) and pieh-jen (others). Personal interests and characteristics as well as social values and norms embodied in others expectations constitute two foundations from which these youths draw to construct their career goals and make...