Generation KU: individualism and China's millennial youth.

From: Ethnology | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Moore, Robert L. | Copyright information

The People's Republic of China is undergoing dramatic changes, most of which have their roots in the government-initiated reforms of the 1980s. However, many of the current changes are being driven by China's younger generation, China's equivalent of America's millennials. One of the most prominent of these changes is a new kind of individualism valued by China's millennial youth. A key indicator of young Chinese attachment to this new individualism is the pervasive use of a new sl...

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