Jemimah Steinfeld

No society is changing as rapidly as today's China is. Cities grow seemingly overnight, replacing traditional Communist architecture with glittering chrome and glass edifices. Many of today's young adults in China are growing up in a world unrecognizable from that of their parents. How are the children of this new world navigating this new world of money, wealth, increased global interconnectiveness and access, and hierarchy? How is it impacting their sense of self, career, relationship, sexual identity, and romance? Journalist Steinfeld, herself living in China, explores these issues via ethnographic interviews with many young adults living in China's new middle class, with intriguing results that resonate long after the book is ended. Highly recommended. (80)… (mehr)