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Reimagining China

Youth Culture and the Search for Identity in a Post-Pandemic Era

Av Wendy Su

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Reimagining China explores the lives and cultural imaginations of China's millennials and Generation Z, those born from the mid-1980s to the turn of the millennium amid unprecedented social transformations in both China and the world. Confronted with intensifying geopolitical rivalry, economic uncertainty, the COVID-19 pandemic, and shifting cultural values, Chinese youth navigate through competing visions of identity, belonging, and national destiny. Through their aspirations, disillusionment, resistance, and resilience, this book reveals how young Chinese are reimagining both themselves and a rapidly changing nation.Grounded in European youth studies and informed by the British Cultural Studies tradition, author Wendy Su identifies and investigates five key themes that define contemporary Chinese youth cultures and subcultures in a post-pandemic era: youth popular nationalism, youth idealism, lying flat-ism and nonviolent resistance, fan culture, and global imagination through the reception of Western and Eastern screen culture. These thematic focal points capture the diverse and often contradictory responses of Chinese youth to the rapidly shifting sociopolitical landscape. Additionally, Su critically examines the evolving relationship between the state and youth, paying particular attention to how young people navigate and negotiate the dual forces shaping their cultural expressions and identities, namely, state authority and market capitalism.By focusing on the cultural practices, experiences, and expressions of young Chinese people, Reimagining China explores the search for collective identity amid conflicting discourses of national and global development and suggests the contours of a viable, pluralistic modernity rooted in shared Asian values and post-Western global imaginaries.
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Wendy Su is Associate Professor in the Department of Media & Cultural Studies at the University of California Riverside. She is author of China's Encounter with Global Hollywood: Cultural Policy and Film Industry, 1994-2013 and editor (with Dal Yong Jin) of Asia-Pacific Film Coproduction: Theory, Industry and Aesthetics.

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"Reimagining China is a timely, insightful, fascinating, comprehensive study of the mental, spiritual, and sociological state of youth in contemporary China and especially since the Covid pandemic. Wendy Su perceptively outlines and analyzes the choices and dilemmas facing youth as they are caught in the conflicting currents of nationalism, globalization, socialism, capitalism, market forces, party ideology, active participation in social change, passivity, and pessimism about the present and future. She describes the attempt of Chinese youth to search for a suitable national and regional identity amidst the competing allures of Western values, Asian traditions, and indigenous roots . . . skillfully navigat[ing] various strands of social phenomena and academic discourses to pinpoint the uniqueness of the Chinese condition at hand."—Sheldon Lu, author of Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture: Envisioning the Nation "Reimagining China will be an important contribution to cultural studies since it addresses leading theoretical arguments in this field and applies them to the Chinese case. Since it is grounded in European youth studies and the British cultural studies tradition, for example the work of Raymond Williams, it should be widely applicable for cultural, communication and youth studies."—Stanley Rosen, coeditor of Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China's Campaign for Hearts and Minds

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