1st Edition
Young Adults in Urban China and Taiwan Aspirations, Expectations, and Life Choices
By Désirée Remmert
Copyright 2020
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book compares aspirations and life choices among educated young adults in urban China and Taiwan. As two places that share a cultural heritage but very different political and economic systems, it assesses how the socio-economic and political trajectories of China and Taiwan have influenced young people's decision-making and the strategies they apply to realize their goals. Drawing... Read more
Introduction
1. Growing Up under Different Regimes - Childhood Memories of Mothers and their Children
2. Educational Choices and the Fostering of Independence
3. Working towards the Future - Professional Aspirations
4. Courtship and Marriage in Beijing and Taipei
5. Making Choices
6. Disenchantment and Escape
7. Perspectives of Hope
Conclusion
Biography
Désirée Remmert obtained her PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. Afterwards she conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Tübingen in Germany, Academia Sinica in Taiwan and at the LSE, UK.
