1st Edition
Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self
Introduction 1. Social Transformation in China (1979-2010) 2. The Internet with Chinese Characteristics 3. Paradoxes as Lived Experiences of Modernization: Urban Youth with Chinese Characteristics 4. The Internet in the Everyday Lifeworld: ‘I-and-the-Internet’ Narratives from Members of China’s ‘Net-Generation’ 5. The Internet Anxiety, the Norm of the ‘Good’ Netizen and the Construction of the ‘Proper’ Wired Self 6. Between Demonization and Celebration: Chinese Urban Youth and the Net Café 7. The Balinghou’s Collective Narrative in an Online Forum 8. From Political Indifference to Vehement Nationalism: Chinese Young People Negotiating the Political Self in the Internet Age. Conclusion: Modernity, the Internet and the Self
Biography
Fengshu Liu is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Educational Research, University of Oslo.






