{"id":156741,"date":"2013-05-29T12:13:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T19:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=156741"},"modified":"2013-05-30T10:14:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:14:57","slug":"darkness-outside-the-night-for-chinas-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/05\/darkness-outside-the-night-for-chinas-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Darkness Outside The Night&#8221; for China&#8217;s Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/05\/29\/187044910\/for-chinas-youth-a-life-of-darkness-outside-the-night\"><strong>NPR&#8217;s Louisa Lim interviews graphic novelist Xie Peng<\/strong><\/a>, whose first novel, &#8220;Darkness Outside The Night,&#8221; is described as, &#8220;a psychological journey into the world of young Chinese,&#8221; reflecting the <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/05\/anxieties-and-hopes-for-chinas-future\/\">anxieties and stress of life in China today<\/a>. NPR also posted an excerpt from the book. From Lim&#8217;s interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On whether his generation is freer than his parents:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In our generation, you are free, but things have to be purchased. Freedom needs to be bought. Without money, you will have no freedom. Dignity also needs to be bought. It&#8217;s an illusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the stress that young Chinese are under:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Competition is very fierce. For example, exams are a competition with a very low chance of winning. And at work, too, for example when I do a project, there are many others doing the same project, so my chance of success is very low; probably only 10 percent of the projects are successful. In different eras, we suffer from different problems, and the problem at the moment is massive stress.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/05\/29\/187044910\/for-chinas-youth-a-life-of-darkness-outside-the-night\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more about the book or download it<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Darkness-outside-the-night-ebook\/dp\/B009YMFPMS\"> via Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s Louisa Lim interviews graphic novelist Xie Peng, whose first novel, &#8220;Darkness Outside The Night,&#8221; is described as, &#8220;a psychological journey into the world of young Chinese,&#8221; reflecting the anxieties and stress of life in China today. NPR also posted an excerpt from the book. 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