China's Youth

Introduction. China's millennials -- 1. Social transformation and youth studies in China -- 2. Children of the 1980s -- 3. An emerging silent revolution? -- 4. The urban-rural divide -- 5. Educational inequality in the post-1980s generation -- 6. China's millennial NEETs -- 7. A tightening labor market for college graduates -- 8. Housing conditions of employed youth in Beijing -- 9. The reversal of the gender balance in education, and its challenges -- 10. The widening income gap -- 11. Gender inequality in education -- 12. Consumption power and patterns of the Chinese middle class -- 13. Consumption trends and behavioral changes among urban white-collar youth in the era of WeChat -- 14. Group characteristics of China's youth and triggering factors for potential sociopolitical unrest -- 15. Intergenerational differences in national identity -- 16. Today's generation.