Generations in China

March 28th, 2009 admin

Many thanks to all who joined the discussion several weeks ago regarding generations in India . I hope those of you who grew up in China will share your formative experiences and the resultant conceptual models that influence your view of today’s world. Let me offer an initial overview, based on my research. Individuals born from about 1928 to 1945 (Traditionalists) In the 1940’s and 1950’s, while teens in India were living through the advent of the independent Indian state and those in the U.S. were experiencing the birth of the consumer economy, teens in China were also living through a major transition. The second Sino-Japanese War, the largest Asian …

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Generations in China


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