{"id":58726,"date":"2015-12-02T05:35:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T09:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=58726"},"modified":"2015-11-23T00:41:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T04:41:49","slug":"author-event-chinas-millennials-the-want-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=58726","title":{"rendered":"Author Event: &#8216;China&#8217;s Millennials: The Want Generation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, December 02  6:30pm &#8211; 7:30pm<br \/>\nQueens Library-Flushing<br \/>\n41-17 Main St, Flushing, NY 11355<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/files\/imagecache\/centers_articles_pages\/chinas_millennials.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[58726]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/files\/imagecache\/centers_articles_pages\/chinas_millennials.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Journalist Eric Fish discusses his \ufb01rst book, China\u2019s Millennials: The Want Generation, which pro\ufb01les Chinese youth from around the country and how they are navigating the education system, the workplace, divisive social issues and a resurgence in activism. Brought up with lofty expectations, China\u2019s Millennials have been accustomed to unprecedented opportunities on the back of an economic boom. But today, China\u2019s growth is slowing and its demographics rapidly shifting, with the boom years giving way to a painful hangover.<\/p>\n<p>Fish, a millennial himself, \ufb01rst moved to China in 2007, where he taught Chinese university students and then earned his master\u2019s degree at Tsinghua University. Through his time both teaching and studying, he became drawn to the stories of young Chinese who were coming of age.<\/p>\n<p>For more details visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/new-york\/events\/author-event-chinas-millennials-want-generation\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, December 02 6:30pm &#8211; 7:30pm Queens Library-Flushing 41-17 Main St, Flushing, NY 11355<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58729,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58726\/revisions\/58729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}