Tag: Meritocracy

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China’s Generation Gaps

As income inequality in China grows increasingly urgent, James Palmer examines another divide in Chinese society less frequently scrutinized in the West: the generation gap between young Chinese and their parents, which one 26-year-old interviewee describes as "a values gap, a wealth gap, an education gap, a relationships gap, an information gap." From Aeon Magazine: Older Chinese, espec