Absolutely no taboos—Absolute Privacy. The Fourth Oral History of Contemporary Chinese Emotional Experiences

Author: An Dun
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: The author spent four years interviewing these individuals who belong to the "new new human" generation, and discovered many ambivalent spiritual traits in them: they quickly embrace new things but lack life and psychological guidance from adults; their ways of engaging with the world are diverse, and their information channels are broad, yet they have no clear boundaries between right and wrong; they value self-perception and life experiences, have the courage and conditions to try various lifestyles, yet they are easily impulsive and lack a sense of responsibility; they are confident and eager to subvert tradition, yet after experiencing pain and hurt, they gradually tend to return to tradition, lacking the psychological foundation to confirm their rebellion; they are highly adaptable because of their instability, yet they refuse to be shaped by any social force; they rebel against the established rules of the adult world, yet when they cannot justify themselves, they use these rules for their own hedonistic and pragmatic purposes; many of them do not believe in love, yet they continue to conduct one love experiment after another using their emotions and bodies as mediums.