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Feng, Zhao – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
Young people represent the future, and youth is an eternal topic. In the 1970s when the American anthropologist Margaret Mead published her famous work "Generation Gap," research on generations gained sudden popularity worldwide, and ever since the 1980s when "Generation Gap" was brought to China, research by scholars in this…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Youth, Generational Differences
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Guo, Zhang; Yang, Ping; Wei, Wang – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
A young person born in the 1980s said jokingly to a reporter, "No, you are a post-90s. I am a post-80s, not a post-90s, nor a post-85s." In his view, he was not of the same generation as the post-90s, who are a few years younger than him. They were egotists, selfish, obstinate, and hedonistic, lacked any sense of responsibility, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Age Differences, College Students, Higher Education
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Wei, Zhang – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
In keeping with the increasing importance of technology, the "war of words" between those born in the 1980s and those born in the 1990s has been largely fought through online videos, blogs, and Internet forums. This article also reveals how each new generation is eager to take its place at the center stage and how young generations…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Higher Education, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
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Bo, Lu – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
This article specifically analyzes the negative impact exerted by angry youth and spoofers on the construction of a harmonious society from four aspects: the way these intensify social contradictions, affect the social mentality, undermine mainstream values, and interfere with freedom of speech. It purports that importance must be attached to the…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Young Adults, Age Differences, Generational Differences