Searching for Life's Meaning: Changes and Tensions in the Worldviews of Chinese Youth in the 1980s

by Luo Xu

How did a self-centered "me generation" engage in a student movement that developed into the largest urban protest in modern Chinese history? Searching for Life's Meaning explores the profound changes in the beliefs and values of Chinese youth that occurred during the 1980s and that ultimately led to the confrontation in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Drawing on his own experience as a teacher at Capital Normal University in Beijing, China during...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472112392
• ISBN13: 9780472112395
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.6"