The Post-90 generation (; yue, 九十後, gau2 sap6 hau6 or yue, 九零後, gau2 ling4 hau6) is a
generation
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in
China
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, especially in urban areas, generally considered to be born between 1990 and 1999 though sometimes considered to start with those born in the fall of 1989 (as they would graduate in the same class as those born in 1990).
They are the second generation of
Chinese people
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Chinese people are known as Zhongguoren () or as Huaren () by speakers of s ...
to have fully grown up in the post-
Tiananmen
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era and the first generation to be born after the protests. They are also China's last 20th-century-born cohort.
They are alleged to have traits that are similar to the
Post-80s
The Post-'80s (also the Post-1980s, ; yue, 八十後, baat3 sap6 hau6 or yue, 八零後, baat3 ling4 hau6) is a Chinese colloquial term referring to the generation in Mainland China born between 1980 and 1989, especially in urban cities, after t ...
generation, such as the
Little Emperor Syndrome and a knack for
information technology
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and
capitalism
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, but in a much more highly developed way. On the other hand, the post-1990 generation is also characterized as being more realistic about their place in society than the post-1980 generation.
The Post-90 generation is also alleged to have less of a sense of
hierarchy
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in the workplace and more of a sense of
individuality
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compared to older generations.
The Post-90 generation have distinct cultural characteristics and are often stereotyped as "lazy, promiscuous, confused, selfish, brain-damaged and overall hopeless".
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CNN
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July 18, 2010
Unlike the Post-80 generation, which witnessed a glimpse of pre-affluent China in the late 1980s and 1990s, all but the oldest members of the Post-90 generation have only known a
booming urban China for most of their lives.
See also
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Generation Y
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Generation Z
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Internet in China
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Moonlight clan
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The term is derived from a lunar cycle. While ''yue guang'' translates directly to "moonlight", it is also a ...
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One child policy
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Strawberry generation, the equivalent generation in
Taiwan
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(born 1981–1991)
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9X Generation
Thế hệ 9X (literally "9X Generation", often referred to simply as 9X) is a Vietnamese term for people born during the 1990s. The usage of 9X was used to refer to both Vietnamese people and people of varying Asian cultures born during the 1990s ...
, equivalent demographic cohort from Vietnam.
References
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1990s in China
Society of China
Demographics of China
Special idioms of modern Chinese language
Cultural generations
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