HOW CHINA’S YOUNG PEOPLE SEE THEMSELVES
May 4: the annual Chinese holiday for young people, linked historically to the 1919 May Fourth Movement when scores of students took to the streets to call for reforms, if not revolution, for national salvation. At that time, China was in the midst of its “century of humiliation.” The nation faced existential crises associated with imperial aggression, compounded by severe and widening gaps in political, economic, scientific and cultural development.
That was then, this is now. Today, China is in the global vanguard as an economic power and technological society. Many estimates predict China may well be the world’s leading economy in the next 10 to
