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Zak Dychtwald was twenty years old when he first landed in China as part of a study abroad program and has spent much time there ever since. He spent years immersed in the culture, learning the language and spending time with his peers, in apartment shares and hostels, on long train rides and over endless restaurant meals. In YOUNG CHINA: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World (St. Martin’s Press; on-sale February 13, 2018), Dychtwald, who is fluent in Chinese, examines the future of China through the lens of the Jiu Ling Hou – his peer generation, the Chinese generation born after 1990.
China’s young generation is radically different from the China that we know. From single-child pressure, to test taking madness and the frenzy to buy an apartment as a prerequisite to marriage, from one-night-stands to an evolving understanding of family, YOUNG CHINA offers a fascinating portrait of the generation directing China’s powerful next step and defining what it means to be Chinese in the modern era. Set primarily in the Eastern 2nd tier city of Suzhou and the budding Western metropolis of Chengdu, this book charts the touchstone issues this young generation faces. Through his personal encounters with this generation, Dychtwald gives immense insight into how young Chinese feel about everything from money and sex, to government, the West, and China’s shifting role in the world, not to mention their love affair with food, karaoke, and travel.
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