Jeroen de Kloet is Professor in Globalization Studies and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam Anthony Y. H. Fung is Professor and Director of the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

• MapChronologyAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Youth in ChinaNo More RevolutionYouth ScapesChanging Youth ValuesThe ChaptersCreative WarfareChapter 1: Youth and Power: Education, Family, and the StateIntroductionPolitical Values and Party MembershipFamily and FamilismPedagogy and EducationConclusionChapter 2: Dressing up the Future: Chinese Youth TodayIntroductionGlobal InauthenticitiesFashion StylesSonic StylesDigital StylesConclusionChapter 3: Localization of Regional CultureIntroductionLocalizing TV format from withoutRegional TV Formats and Class Re-imaginationRunning Man: The Turn to GamificationPopular Music and FandomThe Chinese AKB48: irrelevance to politicsTFBoys and Korean ImaginationConclusionChapter 4 Chinese Heteronormativity and Its DiscontentsIntroductionChinese Genders?Heteronormative Aspirations I: Survey FindingsHeteronormative Aspirations II: Media RepresentationsUnsettling Heteronormativity I: Romance ComedyUnsettling Heteronormativity II: Queer ChinaUnsettling Heteronormativity III: Sex and FeminismConclusionChapter 5: Mobility, Marginalization and DesireIntroductionMigrant Youth, Representation and DesireMigrant Youth as Media ProducersMigrant Youth and New Media TechnologiesGaming and Immaterial LabourGoldfarming versus FarmingFrom Village to Art Village: New Spaces and MobilityConclusionConclusion: Youth and HopeReferences

“Using an innovative methodology including interviews and ethnographic studies, the authors have given us a complex study of youth cultures. They do an excellent job of examining important and understudied issues such as media representations of youth in contemporary popular and digital culture.”Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California“In this interrogation of the multiplicity of youth cultures in China, the authors ditch familiar stereotypes of China’s youth to explore how young urban people are charting challenging paths for China’s future. Based largely on ethnographic research, this book will appeal to non-specialist readers as well as students of contemporary Chinese culture and society.”Harriet Evans, University of Westminster "Jeroen de Kloet and Anthony Y. H. Fung provide a sophisticated and erudite account of how appropriations and localisations of international digital technologies, music trends and fashion styles enable Chinese youth to experiment with "spontaneous" and "unpredictable" identities and embodiments as they navigate through cultural spaces [… They] surmise that Chinese youth can think, feel and act imaginatively and critically so as to anticipate and aspire to a politics of the future as difference […] which could have political consequences in years to come."Journal of Contemporary Asia

Jeroen de Kloet is Professor in Globalization Studies and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam Anthony Y. H. Fung is Professor and Director of the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

• MapChronologyAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Youth in ChinaNo More RevolutionYouth ScapesChanging Youth ValuesThe ChaptersCreative WarfareChapter 1: Youth and Power: Education, Family, and the StateIntroductionPolitical Values and Party MembershipFamily and FamilismPedagogy and EducationConclusionChapter 2: Dressing up the Future: Chinese Youth TodayIntroductionGlobal InauthenticitiesFashion StylesSonic StylesDigital StylesConclusionChapter 3: Localization of Regional CultureIntroductionLocalizing TV format from withoutRegional TV Formats and Class Re-imaginationRunning Man: The Turn to GamificationPopular Music and FandomThe Chinese AKB48: irrelevance to politicsTFBoys and Korean ImaginationConclusionChapter 4 Chinese Heteronormativity and Its DiscontentsIntroductionChinese Genders?Heteronormative Aspirations I: Survey FindingsHeteronormative Aspirations II: Media RepresentationsUnsettling Heteronormativity I: Romance ComedyUnsettling Heteronormativity II: Queer ChinaUnsettling Heteronormativity III: Sex and FeminismConclusionChapter 5: Mobility, Marginalization and DesireIntroductionMigrant Youth, Representation and DesireMigrant Youth as Media ProducersMigrant Youth and New Media TechnologiesGaming and Immaterial LabourGoldfarming versus FarmingFrom Village to Art Village: New Spaces and MobilityConclusionConclusion: Youth and HopeReferences

“Using an innovative methodology including interviews and ethnographic studies, the authors have given us a complex study of youth cultures. They do an excellent job of examining important and understudied issues such as media representations of youth in contemporary popular and digital culture.”Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California“In this interrogation of the multiplicity of youth cultures in China, the authors ditch familiar stereotypes of China’s youth to explore how young urban people are charting challenging paths for China’s future. Based largely on ethnographic research, this book will appeal to non-specialist readers as well as students of contemporary Chinese culture and society.”Harriet Evans, University of Westminster "Jeroen de Kloet and Anthony Y. H. Fung provide a sophisticated and erudite account of how appropriations and localisations of international digital technologies, music trends and fashion styles enable Chinese youth to experiment with "spontaneous" and "unpredictable" identities and embodiments as they navigate through cultural spaces [… They] surmise that Chinese youth can think, feel and act imaginatively and critically so as to anticipate and aspire to a politics of the future as difference […] which could have political consequences in years to come."Journal of Contemporary Asia

Jeroen de Kloet is Professor in Globalization Studies and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam Anthony Y. H. Fung is Professor and Director of the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

• MapChronologyAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Youth in ChinaNo More RevolutionYouth ScapesChanging Youth ValuesThe ChaptersCreative WarfareChapter 1: Youth and Power: Education, Family, and the StateIntroductionPolitical Values and Party MembershipFamily and FamilismPedagogy and EducationConclusionChapter 2: Dressing up the Future: Chinese Youth TodayIntroductionGlobal InauthenticitiesFashion StylesSonic StylesDigital StylesConclusionChapter 3: Localization of Regional CultureIntroductionLocalizing TV format from withoutRegional TV Formats and Class Re-imaginationRunning Man: The Turn to GamificationPopular Music and FandomThe Chinese AKB48: irrelevance to politicsTFBoys and Korean ImaginationConclusionChapter 4 Chinese Heteronormativity and Its DiscontentsIntroductionChinese Genders?Heteronormative Aspirations I: Survey FindingsHeteronormative Aspirations II: Media RepresentationsUnsettling Heteronormativity I: Romance ComedyUnsettling Heteronormativity II: Queer ChinaUnsettling Heteronormativity III: Sex and FeminismConclusionChapter 5: Mobility, Marginalization and DesireIntroductionMigrant Youth, Representation and DesireMigrant Youth as Media ProducersMigrant Youth and New Media TechnologiesGaming and Immaterial LabourGoldfarming versus FarmingFrom Village to Art Village: New Spaces and MobilityConclusionConclusion: Youth and HopeReferences

“Using an innovative methodology including interviews and ethnographic studies, the authors have given us a complex study of youth cultures. They do an excellent job of examining important and understudied issues such as media representations of youth in contemporary popular and digital culture.”Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California“In this interrogation of the multiplicity of youth cultures in China, the authors ditch familiar stereotypes of China’s youth to explore how young urban people are charting challenging paths for China’s future. Based largely on ethnographic research, this book will appeal to non-specialist readers as well as students of contemporary Chinese culture and society.”Harriet Evans, University of Westminster "Jeroen de Kloet and Anthony Y. H. Fung provide a sophisticated and erudite account of how appropriations and localisations of international digital technologies, music trends and fashion styles enable Chinese youth to experiment with "spontaneous" and "unpredictable" identities and embodiments as they navigate through cultural spaces [… They] surmise that Chinese youth can think, feel and act imaginatively and critically so as to anticipate and aspire to a politics of the future as difference […] which could have political consequences in years to come."Journal of Contemporary Asia