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 ...
By George Zhao Zhi
Guest blogger Zhi: Zhi was born in Shanghai, but moved to the U.S. as a baby. After a two-decade hiatus and finishing up his undergraduate studies in Boston, he has returned to his birthplace to get in touch with his native ro...
By Jay Mark Caplan
This short documentary gives a snapshot of the lives of Guang’an Technical College students, mediocre students from low income families. For them the future is muddy and the present is often interminably boring. Their se...
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...
By Summer Xia
Hi pal! Still remember Ray Lei’s animation work exhibition and party happened earlier in Qing Gong Guan? We were just deeply moved by Mr.Lei’s works of animation and the live free-style performance of MC J-Fever, MC Ray...
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...
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...
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...
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...