Chinese youths play a hugging game outside a department store in Jinhua, Zhejiang province to mark May 20, a nod to social media slang "520", which sounds like "I love you" in Putonghua. Photo: Corbis Chinese youths play a hugging game outside a department store in Jinhua, Zhejiang province to mark May 20, a nod to social media slang "520", which sounds like "I love you" in Putonghua. Photo: Corbis
Chinese youths play a hugging game outside a department store in Jinhua, Zhejiang province to mark May 20, a nod to social media slang "520", which sounds like "I love you" in Putonghua. Photo: Corbis
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Ambitious, rebellious and free-spirited: China's millennials through American eyes

China's millennials have diverging views that may be a challenge for the authorities. Bernice Chan talks to a writer who spent years tracking this shift

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Bernice Chan
Bernice Chan

Updated: 11:05am, 30 Oct, 2015

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Chinese youths play a hugging game outside a department store in Jinhua, Zhejiang province to mark May 20, a nod to social media slang "520", which sounds like "I love you" in Putonghua. Photo: Corbis Chinese youths play a hugging game outside a department store in Jinhua, Zhejiang province to mark May 20, a nod to social media slang "520", which sounds like "I love you" in Putonghua. Photo: Corbis
Chinese youths play a hugging game outside a department store in Jinhua, Zhejiang province to mark May 20, a nod to social media slang "520", which sounds like "I love you" in Putonghua. Photo: Corbis
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