Why a Great Wave of Nostalgia Is Sweeping Through China

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:08:53 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/why-a-great-wave-of-nostalgia-is-sweeping-through-china.html>

"The classroom restaurant is part of a wave of nostalgia sweeping the
generation of Chinese born between 1980 and 1989, known in China as baling
hou
, or "post-eighties." In late 2010, in the eleven days after an online
video featuring two young men performing Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" was
posted, the forty-two-minute film was viewed more than seven million times,
provoking an outpouring of comments from twenty and thirtysomethings who
confessed to being moved to tears."

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            *** Xanni ***


Andrew Pam
Partner, Glass Wings http://glasswings.com.au/

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