China's youth : increasing diversity amid persistent inequality /

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Author / Creator:Li, Chunling, 1963 January 25- author.
Imprint:Washington, DC : Brookings Institution Press, [2021]
©2021
Description:xv, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
Series:The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
Thornton Center Chinese thinkers series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12663929
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Varying Form of Title:Increasing diversity amid persistent inequality
ISBN:0815739362
9780815739364
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:Online version: 9780815739371
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. China's millennials
  • 1. Social transformation and youth studies in China
  • 2. Children of the 1980s
  • 3. An emerging silent revolution?
  • 4. The urban-rural divide
  • 5. Educational inequality in the post-1980s generation
  • 6. China's millennial NEETs
  • 7. A tightening labor market for college graduates
  • 8. Housing conditions of employed youth in Beijing
  • 9. The reversal of the gender balance in education, and its challenges
  • 10. The widening income gap
  • 11. Gender inequality in education
  • 12. Consumption power and patterns of the Chinese middle class
  • 13. Consumption trends and behavioral changes among urban white-collar youth in the era of WeChat
  • 14. Group characteristics of China's youth and triggering factors for potential sociopolitical unrest
  • 15. Intergenerational differences in national identity
  • 16. Today's generation.