Survey young, urban Chinese today, and you will find them drinking Starbucks, wearing Nikes and blogging obsessively. But you will detect little interest in demanding voting rights, let alone overthrowing the country’s communist rulers. “On their wish list,” says Hong Huang, a publisher of several lifestyle magazines, “a Nintendo Wii comes way ahead of democracy.”

a very accurate portrait of today’s “Me generation” in China, the children of the one-child policy. its power and what it represents for the future of this country, on Time magazine.

tags: china, shanghai
posted on August 30th, 2007 at 12:37 am, under anita na china.