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The Documentary: China's Generation Gap: China's Generation Gap - Part Two

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17/02/2018 GMT

China's Generation Gap - Part Two

China's Generation Gap

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How attitudes towards family, marriage, divorce, dating differ between generations

After decades of huge political and social change in China, Haining Liu explores different attitudes between the generations.

Chinese reporter Haining Liu was born into the ‘one-child generation’ in the early 1980s. She explores how these political, social and economic changes have affected the relationship between old and young in China.

Haining looks at family life, marriage, divorce, dating, opportunities for women, and how being from the one-child generation has affected her and her peers. In a village in the mountains outside Beijing she hears from a great grandma in her 80s and four generations of one family to find out just how much things have changed in this vast country.

(Photo: Chen family, courtesy of the family)

The Documentary: China's Generation Gap

China has changed beyond recognition over the past few decades, both politically and socially. Haining Liu explores how the huge changes in the country have shaped attitudes among people born in different decades, and asks how wide the generation gap is when it comes to ideas about education, work and lifestyles, marriage and family life.

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