Modernization as Lived Experiences: Three Generations of Young Men and Women in China

by Fengshu Liu

Book Overview

This book examines, in a culturally and contextually sensitive way, the particularity of what it means to be young in post-Mao China undergoing rapid and dramatic transformation by comparing childhood and youth experiences over three generations.

The analysis draws on life-history interviews with Beijing young men and women in their last upper secondary year, their parents and their grandparents. The book offers a comprehensive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032086025
• ISBN13: 9781032086026
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"