Fengshu Liu

Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

As both youth and the Internet hold the potential to inflict far-reaching economic, social, cultural, and political changes, this book fulfills a pressing need for a systematical investigation of the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136840500
• Artikelnr.: 42511868

Autorenporträt

Fengshu Liu is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Educational Research, University of Oslo.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Social Transformation in China (1979-2010) 2. The Internet
with Chinese Characteristics 3. Paradoxes as Lived Experiences of
Modernization: Urban Youth with Chinese Characteristics 4. The Internet in
the Everyday Lifeworld: 'I-and-the-Internet' Narratives from Members of
China's 'Net-Generation' 5. The Internet Anxiety, the Norm of the 'Good'
Netizen and the Construction of the 'Proper' Wired Self 6. Between
Demonization and Celebration: Chinese Urban Youth and the Net Café 7. The
Balinghou's Collective Narrative in an Online Forum 8. From Political
Indifference to Vehement Nationalism: Chinese Young People Negotiating the
Political Self in the Internet Age. Conclusion: Modernity, the Internet and
the Self