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The problem with making categorical statements about China is that one can immediately think of an example that suggests otherwise. "Generalizing is about idiots", William Blake said. But a set of dots forms an image, and a handful of notes can make a melody. In the world, almost one in five people is Chinese, and in China there are three hundred and twenty million young people between adolescence and the age of thirty, more than the total population of the United States. Born after Mao, with no memory of Tiananmen, this generation of only children is radically transforming their country, a growing monster that is increasingly postulating itself as a top world power. In Signs of Light, Alec Ash, a British writer of the same generation and resident in Beijing, provides the vivid and fascinating testimony of the lives of six Chinese millennials with the idea of ??introducing us to this groundbreaking new generation. This book, human and revealing, takes the reader beyond stereotypes and news headlines to show him what it really means to be young in contemporary China. Through everyday dramas and romances, Ash sheds light on the greatest fears and hopes, challenges and dreams of those who are destined to define the future of China and the world. "A provocative portrait of a rapidly changing society" Financial Times