Jeroen de Kloet and Anthony Fung, Youth Cultures in China,

Abstract

Youth Cultures in China opens with Wen Yiduo’s assumption of revolutionary zeal among Chinese youth in the early twentieth century, when China was seized by wars and crises, but it argues that Chinese youth today embrace “no more revolution.” Having grown up with market-oriented economic reforms, Chinese youth receive a good level of education, enjoy mass consumption, and share nationalistic sentiments amidst China’s resurgence as a global economic and political superpower in the twenty-first...