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Ideological Crisis among China's Youths: Values and Official Ideology
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This paper examined youth culture in a socialist society and found that the young rejected the harsh and irrelevant values promoted in the ideal youth culture the government packaged for their consumption, and instead they created their own subsulture adopting what they deemed most pertinent and desirable from the official ideology and from the conditions they encountered.Abstract:
This article examines youth culture in a socialist society. Pragmatism, consumerism, individual accomplishment, admiration for the West, and dissatisfaction with the Party, but support for the political system, stand out as the majorbeliefs of young Chinese in the 1980s. The young rejected the harsh and irrelevant values promoted in the ideal youth culture the government packaged for their consumption. Instead they created their own subsulture adopting what they deemed most pertinent and desirable from the official ideology and from the conditions they encountered. In light of these orientations, it is likely that the present policies will continue when this generation takes over political control.read more
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Chinese children as consumers: an analysis of their new product information sources
James U. McNeal,Mindy F. Ji +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that Chinese children utilize a wide variety of information sources to learn about new products including parents, retail outlets, and the mass media, and surprisingly they consider the newest medium, television, to be the most important of all.
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Wary Managers: Unfavorable Environments, Perceived Vulnerability, and the Development of Trust in Foreign Enterprises in China
Lai Si Tsui-Auch,Guido Möllering +1 more
TL;DR: The authors conducted case studies of two foreign-controlled enterprises in China and developed a theoretical model that links perceptions of the macro-level environment to micro-level management, and found that the foreign managers' perceived vulnerability was shaped by the institutional, technological, and market conditions of the local environment, and learned how this perceived vulnerability influenced their trust in the local workforce and the joint investment in formal and social control they used in building trust.
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Shanghai Baby : Negotiating Youth Self-Identity in Urban China
TL;DR: Shanghai Baby as discussed by the authors is a controversial semi-autobiography by Zhou Wei Hui, which was banned in China, with authorities burning 40,000 copies and instructing the State-run media to never mention the author or the book again.
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The cost of materialism in a collectivistic culture: predicting risky behavior engagement in Chinese adolescents.
Randy P. Auerbach,Chad M. McWhinnie,Marc H. Goldfinger,John R. Z. Abela,Xiongzhao Zhu,Shuqiao Yao +5 more
TL;DR: Adolescents who exhibited higher levels of materialism were more likely than adolescents possessing lower levels ofmaterialism to report increased engagement in risky behaviors in response to negative life events, and this effect was only present in boys.
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Technology of Self, Technology of Power. Volunteering as Encounter in Guangzhou, China
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the growing popularity of volunteering in China and delineate several factors that play into the phenomenon, including students' desire to break out of strict routines, to engage in meaningful activities, to meet people, and to contribute to China's development.
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The Wretched of the Earth
TL;DR: Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth as mentioned in this paper is a classic of post-colonization political analysis, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.
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Youth: Transition to Adulthood:
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From generation to generation : age groups and social structure
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of women's changing roles on their children and families was examined. But the authors focused on the social roles of kinship groups, mothers, wives, children and the elderly.
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Adolescent choices and parent-peer cross pressures.
TL;DR: In this paper, the extent to which adolescents are peer-conforming when confronted with parent-peer cross-pressures depends upon the nature of the content alternatives presented to them.
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Youth and the State
TL;DR: The three birth cohorts which have passed through the youth stage of their life course since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 have had radically different relations with the Party-state as discussed by the authors.