Youth Economy Crisis and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China

<p>This book surveys the explosive youth culture in twenty-first century China an active and powerful force catalysing cultural innovations social changes and collective efforts re-inventing a pluralistic and multivalent youth (<i>qingnian</i>) in an age of enormous change division and uncertainty. </p><p></p><p>Providing a comprehensive analysis of literary cinematic musical televisual and social media representations about for and by disparate youth groups this book seeks to offer a systematic investigation of a trans-medial and multi-locale youth culture. In so doing it examines contributions from high school dropouts industrial workers migrant laborers and leftover women as well as best-selling writers and filmmakers cultural entrepreneurs queer idols and fans and young feminist activists. Observing the Chinese youths’ deployment of small genres such as light novels and short videos in addition to digital media this book ultimately demonstrates the renewal of cultural forms and the transformative power of networked small atomized individuals in reinventing a youthful coalition of silenced belittled and marginalized groups. </p><p></p><p>A thoroughly interdisciplinary study <i>Youth Economy Crisis and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China </i>will be useful to students and scholars of Chinese culture and society as well as Literary Studies Cultural Studies Gender Studies and Media Studies.</p>