中国80后调查

Preface

That Year, We Were Born

Employment: Work and Work

From "Pigeonhole" to "Ant Nest," Bitterness and

Friendship

Entrepreneurship to Comfort Two Worlds

Can't Stop, and Won't 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

Preface

That Year, We Were Born

Employment: Work and Work

From "Pigeonhole" to "Ant Nest," Bitterness and

Friendship

Entrepreneurship to Comfort Two Worlds

Can't Stop, and Won't 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

Let's 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 One's 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.