Changing China : Day to Day Life in the New Century.

Cover -- Title Page -- About Yuan Yue -- About Zhang Jun -- Have a Look at Yourself in the Past -- First Foreword to the Chinese Edition -- Second Foreword to the Chinese Edition -- Table of Contents -- Chapter One: The Tightly Wound Up Lives of Chinese -- Popular fast-food meals -- Super-busy express delivery services -- In-your-face trendiness -- The work day which never ends -- Women who are afraid to become mothers -- The elderly who never retire -- Health: Neglecting it on one side, buying health products on the other -- Chapter Two: The Chinese Struggle for Success -- Struggling for success in another place away from home -- The floating population in the cities -- The changing capital in the job market -- Migrant labor workers: I want to disappear into the city -- Staying at home when everyone else is moving -- The moving elderly: the falling leaves which can't find their roots -- Autos: Adding color to the struggle for success -- After the struggle: please give me some peace! -- Chapter Three: The Chinese Who Can't Wait -- Education should start early, the early years fade quickly -- Buying a home: starting at graduation -- Retirement: The dream which begins when they start their career -- Investing: Accelerated joy and worry -- Chapter Four: The Chinese Who Take Down Barriers -- The Relationship Between the Sexes: From Clearly Defined Roles to Complementary Roles -- Love and marriage have become a game -- Home responsibilities: From each having his/her own responsibility, to fighting together shoulder to shoulder -- Power in the household: No big or small -- From the old taking care of the young to the young who are never weaned -- From having a child to care for one's own old age, to society taking care of the old -- The workplace: Time is a butcher's knife -- Mutant literature -- Chapter Five: The Chinese Who Stay within Their Confines.

Always choosing a "human companion" -- Old wine in a new bottle, the search for a marriage partner never ends -- Marriage assets enter the contract age -- For a couple, anything can be discussed -- From one-child policy to planning a family -- From several generations in one home, to the distance of a bowl of soup -- Work is finding the right battlefield -- Chapter Six: The Chinese in Full Bloom -- When online purchases become a habit -- Consumer credit: Enjoying life earlier -- Shanzhai: A shortcut between classes -- Consuming fractured time: boredom brings business opportunities -- Vacation consumerism: Taking the heart to enjoy the scenery -- The rise of the new consumers: COM -- Chapter Seven: The Chinese Trapped in the Internet -- In the Internet, we are all Spiderman -- The blurred line between the virtual world and reality -- Games on the Internet: Mixing reality and fantasy -- The information moat becomes a highway -- The diseased ones are us, not the Internet -- Afterword: Using Details to Show the Change in Living, Using Data to Reflect the Changes -- Horizon Research Consultancy Group -- Horizonkey -- Copyright.

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