1st Edition

Cultural Reverse I The Past and Present of Intergenerational Revolution

By Xiaohong Zhou Copyright 2020
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

The phenomenon of "Cultural Reverse" (¿¿¿¿) emerged in the 1980s after China's reform and opening up. In this era of rapid social change, the older generation started to learn from the younger generation across many fields, in a way that is markedly similar to the biological phenomenon of "The old crow that keeps barking, fed by their children" from ancient Chinese poetry. In this book, the... Read more

1. Introduction: Cultural Reverse and New Patterns of Intergenerational Transmission  2. Intergenerational Relations and Their Transitions: A Historical Review  3. Revolution in the Depths of the Soul  4. The Break of Behavioral Modes  5. Artifact Power Not to Be Neglected 

Biography

Zhou Xiaohong served as dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Nanjing University for 16 years; now he is a senior professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanjing University. His main research fields are sociological theory, social psychology and contemporary China studies.