Chinese Youth Concerns

Toward the end of 2020, Freya Ge, a high school senior in Shanghai, wrote to me to ask if she could contribute to the web site as part of her education and civil engagement, and I was delighted to say yes.  We agreed that she would seek out texts of concern to today's Chinese youth, and that we would translate and curate them together.  I will post them here as they become available.


Beijing Youth Journal, “After a Child is Diagnosed with Depression, an ‘Experiment’ that Seeks to Cure a Family”

Chen Yang and Guo Wanying, “Young People Returning to Dongbei”

Fu Yu and Gui Yong, "The Five Intriguing Paradoxes of Contemporary Chinese Young People"

Lai Youxuan, "Delivery Drivers, Stuck in the System"

Lei Wanghong, “Tiger Mothers are Multiplying in Urban China because of the Epidemic of Success Education”

Liu Xinting, “Why are Contemporary Youth Increasingly ‘Unhappy?’  Focus on the Living Conditions of China’s Youth”

Liu Yu, "My Daughter is Inexorably Becoming an Ordinary Person"

Lu Nanfeng and Wu Jing, “Historical Transformation and Grand Narrative: A Political Analysis of the ‘Industrial Party,’ an Online Intellectual Trend”

​Lü Pin, “How the Thwarted Feminist Movement Gave Birth to a New Generation of Blank Paper Revolutionaries”

Pan Nini, “How the ‘Little Pinks’ were Born:  Analyzing ‘Fan Patriotism’ in the Internet Era” 

Qing Qingzi, “Intel Pulls Yang Li’s Ad:  Who is Creating the “Male-Female Antagonism?’” 

Su Qinian, “Sexually Suggestive Images Should Not Appear on Children’s Clothing” 

Wu Changchang, “Video Sites and the ‘Involution’ of State Power” 

​Wu Chaojin and Zhang Jinrong, “A Sociological Interpretation of ‘Goofing Off:’ Where Did This Online Youth Dilemma Come From?”

Xiao Shuyan, “From ‘Chasing after Mutual Funds’ to ‘Forming a Group to Pinch Pennies’—Why Does this Generation of Youth Persist in ‘Doing Money’?”

Xiao Zeng, “88 Days after the End of After-School Classes, Helicopter Parents are still Anxious” 

Xiong Wenchun, “Polarization: The Structure of the Education System Behind the Culture of Migrant Workers’ Children”

Xu Jilin, "China’s Generation Z?  What are houlang and houlang Culture?"

​Xu Jinlin, “How to ‘Redimension the Enlightenment’ When Dealing with Houlang Culture” 

Xu Kaiwen, “How Hard it is to Become a Mentally Healthy Student, Given ‘Hollow-Heart Disease’ and the Anxieties of Our Age?" 

Yang Xiong, “The Roots of and Solution to ‘Education Involution’ in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”

Yu Liang, “The Genealogy and Ecology of the Little Pinks, and the Future of Chinese Youth”

Youthology, "A Diary of Four Years of Psychological Treatment:  From Seeking Help to Helping Others"

​Youthology, “When Polarizing Language is Everywhere, It is all the More Important to Speak Nicely” 

Zhou An'an and Wu Jing, "The whole country is working hard, and I'm just one of those workers" ​