The Chinese Dream: Real-Life Stories of the Young in Contemporary China

This book contains the touching life stories of 11 young Chinese people who have struggled to realize their dreams, experienced success and failure, learned lessons and occasionally felt regret. The stories are presented without embellishment and in their original form as interviews; they feature marital upsets, interpersonal conflicts, frustration arising from failure, the struggles of a UN official trying to keep the peace in Liberia, the new life of a former champion figure-skater after retirement, the happiness found by a young man despite losing a leg, a girl's dream to travel around the world, and more.
About the author
An Dun (pen name of Zhang Jieying), a Beijing native, is editor of and a reporter for (is an editor and a reporter of)Beijing Youth Daily. She started her case studies on the