How Covid Changed China’s Youth
The pandemic woke China’s young people up to the reality that their society is oriented to the values and priorities of the elderly, whose truths are very different from their own.
Excerpt of "Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue,” a documentary about rural China from director Jia Zhang-Ke. (Courtesy of Cinema Guild.) Credits Jacob Dreyer is an editor and contributing writer for Noema based in Shanghai. – 1 – “We are the last generation, thank you.” — Unknown . SHANGHAI — On the third day of the 2022 COVID lockdown, my wife told me that she was pregnant. Our life in China during that stage of the pandemic was not exactly hellish, but it certainly felt like purgatory. Some days, I was able to leave our apartment building for long walks through the deserted str
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