Yu Hua on why young Chinese no longer want to work for private firms
In today’s China stability trumps enterprise, argues the novelist
WHAT LIES at the far reaches of the universe? This is a question that science has yet to answer, but most young people in China today already have an answer. According to them, at the end of the universe is not the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy or the Canes Venatici Constellation, but a government job.
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