The post-2000 generation in China: A social mentality perspective

Last month, while traveling for work, I ran into one of my former teachers from my university days in Shanghai. He had been a mentor with our campus arts and theatre group, and I spent some time back then learning acting and playwriting under his guidance. When we met this time, we talked about the students he works with now. He noted that today’s students — most of them born after 2000 — are quite different from those of twenty years ago. I’ve long been interested in China’s younger generations, and recently I came across an academic article on the website Aisixiang, an aggregator of scholarly writing on a range of topics from top Chinese experts. The article, titled “Key Features and Formation Mechanisms of the Social Mindset of the Post-2000 Generation,” is written by Hu Xianzhong, a professor at the Central School of Communist Youth League of China. According to Aisixiang, this article is part of “国家社科基金高校思政课研究专项重点项目” a key project under the National Social Science Fund’s special r

Last month, while traveling for work, I ran into one of my former teachers from my university days in Shanghai. He had been a mentor with our campus arts and theatre group, and I spent some time back then learning acting and playwriting under his guidance. When we met this time, we talked about the students he works with now. He noted that today’s students — most of them born after 2000 — are quite different from those of twenty years ago. I’ve long been interested in China’s younger generations, and recently I came across an academic article on the website Aisixiang, an aggregator of scholarl