Simon Elegant’s TIME post on China’s young “Me Generation” is getting a lot of attention by China bloggers (here and here) and will definitely challenge any stereotypical thinking about Chinese 20-somethings. It’s worth a read. Here’s an excerpt:
“One event that the Me generation does remember is the crackdown on student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. But to young Chinese like Maria and Vicky, the Tiananmen protests are less a source of inspiration than an admonishment. Were popular uprisings like Tiananmen allowed to continue, Vicky believes, they would have provoked a counterreaction by conservative forces and led to a return to fortress China: no more iPods, overseas shopping trips or snowboarding weekends. ‘I think that the students meant well,’ says Vicky, who was 11 at the time and has only vague memories of what happened. But the crackdown that ended the demonstrations ‘certainly was needed.’ “
August 3, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Hey
Thanks for linking to my blog especially considering it in the same level as Chinalawblog. I’ll take that as a big compliment.
J.