The blended lives of young Chinese online

Like their peers around the world, Chinese youth-here defined as people between the late teens and the late twenties (i.e., final years in school and settling down in full-time employment)- spend much of their lives online using a variety of devices to do so. While their basic behaviour is similar to youth elsewhere, though, the encounter young people in China have with the Internet is quite different and influenced by both the socio-political setting of the Internet in China, as well as particularly Chinese economic forces.