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Fengshu Liu

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Description:Comparative information about childhood and youth experiences over time is valuable for understanding the complexity entailed by social transformation in today's world, especially in societies undergoing dramatic change. In this book, Fengshu Liu, professor at the University of Oslo, 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. Her 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 coverage of the various aspects of life pertinent to youth experiences and compares each of these across three generations, treating them as interrelated and mutually affecting processes--childhood, intergenerational relationships, education and future plans, gender and sexuality. By offering both men's and women's accounts of their childhood and youth experiences, which for the three generations combined extend over nearly a century, the book sheds useful light on how gender and sexuality have evolved in China.Liu concludes that the young generation's lives feature a 'maximization desire', in sharp contrast to the two older generations' childhood and youth experiences. Such a desire invokes some century-old cultural ideals and traits as much as it is shaped by the specific post-Mao social realities, thus giving the young generation's modernization experiences a uniquely Chinese twist.The book meticulously weaves rich ethnographic details and individual life stories into a larger and unfolding picture of historical, social and cultural trends, while providing critical insight into Chinese modernization and modernity against the backdrop of globalization. It can thus be an enjoyable read also for people beyond the academia interested in China's social and cultural transformation and its youth.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Modernization as Lived Experiences: Three Generations of Young Men and Women in China (Youth, Young Adulthood and Society). To get started finding Modernization as Lived Experiences: Three Generations of Young Men and Women in China (Youth, Young Adulthood and Society), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Comparative information about childhood and youth experiences over time is valuable for understanding the complexity entailed by social transformation in today's world, especially in societies undergoing dramatic change. In this book, Fengshu Liu, professor at the University of Oslo, 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. Her 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 coverage of the various aspects of life pertinent to youth experiences and compares each of these across three generations, treating them as interrelated and mutually affecting processes--childhood, intergenerational relationships, education and future plans, gender and sexuality. By offering both men's and women's accounts of their childhood and youth experiences, which for the three generations combined extend over nearly a century, the book sheds useful light on how gender and sexuality have evolved in China.Liu concludes that the young generation's lives feature a 'maximization desire', in sharp contrast to the two older generations' childhood and youth experiences. Such a desire invokes some century-old cultural ideals and traits as much as it is shaped by the specific post-Mao social realities, thus giving the young generation's modernization experiences a uniquely Chinese twist.The book meticulously weaves rich ethnographic details and individual life stories into a larger and unfolding picture of historical, social and cultural trends, while providing critical insight into Chinese modernization and modernity against the backdrop of globalization. It can thus be an enjoyable read also for people beyond the academia interested in China's social and cultural transformation and its youth.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Modernization as Lived Experiences: Three Generations of Young Men and Women in China (Youth, Young Adulthood and Society). To get started finding Modernization as Lived Experiences: Three Generations of Young Men and Women in China (Youth, Young Adulthood and Society), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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