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Urban youth in China [electronic resource] : modernity, the Internet and the self / Fengshu Liu.

By: Liu, Fengshu.
Series: Routledge research in information technology and society: 10.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2011Description: 1 online resource (x, 228 p.).ISBN: 9780203833049 (ebk : PDF).Subject(s): Internet -- China | Youth -- China | Social change -- ChinaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification: 305.2350951091732 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; Also available in print edition.
Contents:
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. 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 cafâe -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-220) and index.

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. 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 cafâe -- 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.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.