Youth Without Promises: The Growth Story of Top University Students Born in the 1980s

Author: Zhang Hongjie
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book tells the growth stories of top university students born in the 1980s. Currently, there are nearly 20 million college students in China, ranking first in the world. Author Zhang Hongjie interviewed current students from ten top universities in three cities—Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou—and wrote this book based on their growth stories and university experiences. These ten top universities are: Tsinghua University, Peking University, Renmin University of China, Beijing Normal University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University in Shanghai, Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, and South China University of Technology.
On the same journey of youth, meeting you along the way. Self-awareness requires a reference point; if you don’t understand others’ life paths, it’s hard to choose your own. The worries of growing up, the confusion about the future, and the loss of direction—can you commit? Do you need to commit? When facing commitments, does beautiful youth become fragile or strong? The experiences of these top university students in their college lives may offer guidance to countless young people, and their shining youth may illuminate others’ paths. Over the past four years, more than 1,400 days have passed with you and me. Let us still remember those beautiful stories, those with or without known endings, and relive those indelible flavors of youth.