Rockers, Hackers & Slackers : Youth Culture in China
Mark Leong
Matrix / Cosmos
Since I first came to China in 1989, the country has undergone rapid economic and cultural transformation, and nowhere is this more apparent than among its urban youth.
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Unbridled capitalism and the loosening of social strictures have freed them to choose their own futures. But lacking the lifelong "iron rice bowl" security that their parents enjoyed under Maoism, they are floating, wondering where to go.
This project documents subcultures that have emerged as these young people try to define themselves in the uncertain, market-driven world of "socialism with Chinese characteristics."
Mark Leong
