Basketball passion

By Lisa Li
What does basketball mean to Chinese youth? What does ‘dream’ mean? What does it take to be true to your dream?
Aug 7th, we went to the Nike Basketball event.There were basketball games, MC, street dance… and a lot of ...


Demystifying lower tier China: Tangshan snapshots

We wrote about key impressions about youth’s life in Tangshan here. But nothing speaks better than video. This video includes street shots, vox pop, and interviews with high school students, university students, and opinion leaders. Video edite...


Seen from this end…

By Lisa Li
This is part of a series of posts ‘Demystifying Lower Tier China’.
Before diving into lower tier cities, we did vox pop interviews with youth in Beijing.
What’s the understanding of lower tier lifestyles by the c...


Dream of a Chinese Skater

By Lisa Li

Recently China Youthology immersed a lot with Chinese action sports community (skateboarding, BMX, snowboarding) by talking to players, hanging out with them, and following them on SNS, with the purpose of understanding the values or...


Zhangbei InMusic Festival, Ryan, and Summer Interns

By: Lisa Li
We have talked about music festivals in China for a couple of times (here and here). Our team members went to Zhangbei Inmusic Festival from Aug 7 – 9. From their videos and photos, we just see that the enthusiasm towards independe...


Case: Lining Evening Fun Run Event

By Lisa Li, Helen Yu, Ryan Zhang

On May 2nd, more than 2,000 young people (mostly university students) gathered at Chaoyang Park, Beijing, for Lining’s ‘Evening Fun Run Event’ that consisted of a 6 kilometer journey of jogging, an open-ai...