TY - UNPB
T1 - Yesterday's Lei Feng and today's young people's liberation army soldiers
AU - CHAN, Che-po
PY - 2003/12
Y1 - 2003/12
N2 - Lei Feng has been propagandized as a model of emulation for the People's Liberation Army soldiers since the 1960s. This paper uses Lei Feng as a yardstick to measure contemporary young soldiers' general behaviors and orientations. We are interested to find out to what extent contemporary young soldiers have accepted the Chinese Communist Party's political education and have followed the norm set by the Party. It is found that the widely publicized Chinese role model has exerted little influence on contemporary young soldiers. Young soldiers today are utilitarian and materialistic, sharing the same youth culture with most Chinese youths of other social sectors.
AB - Lei Feng has been propagandized as a model of emulation for the People's Liberation Army soldiers since the 1960s. This paper uses Lei Feng as a yardstick to measure contemporary young soldiers' general behaviors and orientations. We are interested to find out to what extent contemporary young soldiers have accepted the Chinese Communist Party's political education and have followed the norm set by the Party. It is found that the widely publicized Chinese role model has exerted little influence on contemporary young soldiers. Young soldiers today are utilitarian and materialistic, sharing the same youth culture with most Chinese youths of other social sectors.
UR - https://commons.ln.edu.hk/capswp/15/
M3 - Working paper series
T3 - Centre for Asian Pacific Studies Working Paper Series
BT - Yesterday's Lei Feng and today's young people's liberation army soldiers
PB - Centre for Asian Pacific Studies
CY - Hong Kong
ER -