Preface That Year, We Were Born Employment: Work and Work From "Pigeonhole" to "Ant Nest," Bitterness and Friendship Entrepreneurship to Comfort Two Worlds Cant Stop, and Wont Stop Voices Housing: No Longer a Home The Sec-Killed Mortgage Slaves How Housing Prices Soared in a Month Losing His Girl to an Apartment Voices Love: The Weak in Love No Seven-Year Itch He Did Love Me in England Naked Weddings Are About Love, Not Financial Hardship Voices Family: Diluted Means of Expression Accompanied by Family All the Way The Last 150 Times to See Pa and Ma "Renting" a Girlfriend to Take Home for the Spring Festival Voices Children: To Have or Have Not Promotion of a DINK Woman "A Hidden War" Before Delivery After the Baby Came Voices Choices: To Live Real End of a Ten-Year Dream to Be a Journalist Lets Play Videogames! From IT White-Collar to Intermediate at a Real Estate Company Voices Responsibilities: 4% of Social Responsibility Devoting Myself to Tibet College Graduate as Village Official A Volunteer for Environmental Protection Voices Dreams: Lost in Reality Hit Hard in Ones Thirties For the Love and Joy of It Dream Come True in Songzhuang Voices If You Still Have Dreams
本书讲述的是一个又一个80后年轻人的生活轨迹。在改革开放和计划生育政策实施后出生的80后,是一直亲眼见证并经历着当代中国在改革开放后日渐发展崛起并与之一同成长的特殊的新一代。他们的七情六欲是否超越了其他群体,是否有着这一群体共同的某些特性。作者基于对80后身份和命运的强烈认同感,用纪实文学的手法展示了当下80后的八个方面:爱情、孩子、就业、房子、亲情、选择、责任、梦想,每个方面选取了三个人物的真实故事,其中有喜有悲,有惆怅也有无奈,还夹杂了希望、坚定、执著等不同情绪。 This book tracks the lives of many of the young people of the post-1980s generation. T he post-1980s were born after reform and opening-up in 1978, and the implementation of China’s family planning policy. It is a unique new generation, witness to – as well as experiencing and growing up with – the development and reemergence of China from the very onset of the reform and opening-up process. People wonder whether the desires of this generation go beyond others, or if they possess certain common characteristics as a group. Based on a strong recognition of a post-1980s identity and destiny, the author decided to adopt a documentary mode of literature to illustrate eight aspects of this group’s lives, namely, love, children, work, home, family love, choices, responsibilities, and dreams. For each of these aspects, he presents the reader with the life stories of three individuals. Readers may find in their stories, joy along with sadness, sorrow and helplessness, mingled with hope, resolve, determination, and other sentiments. As these true stories come alive before their eyes, readers might find themselves both touched and shocked.