Essays about: "Chinese youth"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 21 essays containing the words Chinese youth.
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11. The Value of Taste: Consumption Strategies for Social Upward Mobility among Urban Chinese Youth
University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This thesis explores a group of young Western-oriented Chinese consumers called xiaozi in Shanghai, comprised mainly by young individuals from an urban lower middle-class background who attempt at adopting a lifestyle and identity marked by a taste for fine arts and foreign culture. The study shows that by means of social distinction through taste and foreign cultural practices the xiaozi youth can attempt at acquiring cultural capital for upward social mobility, to compensate for their lack of economic capital or social connections in Shanghai's society. READ MORE
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12. The Hybrid Ideals of Chinese Elite Students : An Ethnography
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : The youth of China seems poised to put their mark on our world no matter our projection of the future. They find themselves bridging two civilizations, having their thoughts shaped by a society in which, due to a transformation of unprecedented speed, past and future value systems exist simultaneously, and they know that as China grows stronger in the economic and military sphere, it could be a question of time before it starts wielding some cultural and normative power, making these youths an important force. READ MORE
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13. PARENTAL REARING, ATTACHMENT QUALITY AND SOCIAL ANXIETY AMONG CHINESE ADOLESCENTS
University essay from Psykologiska institutionenAbstract : This study investigated the extent to which memories of parental rearing were related to the quality of parent and peer attachment, and whether parent and peer attachment were correlated with social anxiety feelings among 510 Chinese high school students. Memories of parental rearing were measured by the My Memories of Upbringing for Children (EMBU-C), The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA) was used to assess attachment quality and social anxiety was assessed by Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) with adolescents in two age-groups. READ MORE
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14. Applications of Cultural Analysis in Marketing in a Mainland Chinese Context
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiAbstract : Although China is changing rapidly, Chinese values and culture change much slower than economic statistics. Simultaneously, interests in culture have grown dramatically in marketing study and practice worldwide, however culture is by and large the least investigated part in terms of marketing in mainland China. READ MORE
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15. COSPLAY IN CHINA: POPULAR CULTURE AND YOUTH COMMUNITY
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : In China, cosplay, which is originated for Japan’s costume play, has not simply played as another role of pop culture, but it has represented its unprecedented influence among those youngsters to the public with the form of cosplayers’ association. By raising the questions that “why it is so popular” and “why youngsters devote themselves to this cultural activity”, the research is to contribute to studies on youth culture in China. READ MORE
