# family

Chinese Youth Rework Lunar New Year Rituals: From Obligation to Boundary-Setting

As Chinese young adults face intrusive questioning during Lunar New Year visits, they are adopting new strategies—preparing stock answers, diverting conversation, avoiding visits or educating elders—to protect personal boundaries. These practices reveal broader tensions between ritual obligations and modern pressures such as urbanisation, housing costs and delayed family formation.

SoBiz2026年2月18日 03:24

#Chinese New Year#family#generational conflict

Gurkha soldiers standing in formation in Catterick, England, dressed in uniforms.

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First Homecoming in Uniform: A Mother's Tears and the Politics of Military Image-Building in China

A China military outlet published footage of a young serviceman's first homecoming, showing his mother in tears. While emotionally simple, the story illustrates Beijing's ongoing use of family-focused narratives to bolster military morale, recruitment, and domestic legitimacy amid demographic and political pressures.

SoMi2026年1月18日 07:10

#China#People's Liberation Army#military recruitment