Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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The Impact of Social Media on Youth in China
After I did my PhD, there was worried about all these professional goals and etc. Then things that changed the debate in 2014. It has a sense of intellectual loneliness and also having a sense of being irrelevant to the world. So often just writing for the sake of writing without really deepening the thought or speaking to the public. That attracted some attention from Chinese youth. Probably I received some email messages from my audiences soon after that. But it was not that overwhelming.I mean, I felt very satisfied, given how I felt, only before. Now, of course, I just almost have a week. There's online discussions, or there is public conversations and a large number of email from young
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