There are more than 320 million young Chinese between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with no memory of Tiananmen, they are the first generation to come of age in a market-driven, more international China. Who are these young Chinese? What are their experiences and aspirations, so radically different from their elders? And how will their lives will decide the future of their nation? Alec Ash, author of a new book that follows six such lives, shares some of his insights about the individuals and generational trends shaping young China.

There are more than 320 million young Chinese between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with no memory of Tiananmen, they are the first generation to come of age in a market-driven, more international China. Who are these young Chinese? What are their experiences and aspirations, so radically different from their elders? And how will their lives will decide the future of their nation? Alec Ash, author of a new book that follows six such lives, shares some of his insights about the individuals and generational trends shaping young China.

Alec Ash studied English literature at Oxford University, and first moved to Beijing in 2008. His articles have appeared in The Economist, Dissent, Foreign Policy and elsewhere. He is a regular blogger for the Los Angeles Review of Books, contributing author to the book of reportage Chinese Characters and co-editor of While We’re Here, an anthology of stories from China at theAnthill.org, a ‘writers’ colony’ he founded and edits.

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