Generation Gap

Books

03.27.17

Wish Lanterns

Alec Ash

If China will rule the world one day, who will rule China? There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of 16 and 30. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with no memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre, they are the first net native generation to come of age in a market-driven, more international China. Their experiences and aspirations were formed in a radically different country from the one that shaped their elders, and their lives will decide the future of their nation and its place in the world.

Sinica Podcast

01.31.17

Talking ’Bout My Generation: Chinese Millennials

Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn & more

from Sinica Podcast

Alec Ash, a young British writer who lives in Beijing, has covered “left-behind” children in Chinese villages, the “...

China’s Millennials Are Risk Takers—and They’re Dreaming Big

Having grown up in a booming economy, China's 7.5 million school leavers this year are intent on forging paths very different from their parents

Millennials Shake Up China’s Tech Cultures

Companies find that traditional approaches don’t work for younger employees.

In China, 1980 marked a generational turning point

Members of this generation were born after Mao's death, and when Deng Xiaoping took power and opened up China’s economy for reform....

Sinica Podcast

09.10.15

China’s Millennials

Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn & more

from Sinica Podcast

This week on Sinica, Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn record from San Francisco, where they interview Eric Fish, a long-time China resident, writer at Asia Society, and author of the recent book...

In China, Rural Elderly Are Being Left Behind (Slideshow)

Tens of millions older Chinese are struggling with poverty and loneliness as their children flee villages for cities. Decades of societal turmoil — radical communism followed by rampant capitalism — have frayed the ties that once bound the...

Conversation

03.13.13

China’s Post 1980’s Generation—Are the Kids All Right?

Sun Yunfan, Orville Schell & more

This week, the ChinaFile Conversation is a call for reactions to an article about China's current generation gap, written by James Palmer, a Beijing-based historian,...