comparative value priorities of chinese and new zealand

Figure 3.11.Generation Cohorts in China and New Zealand of Interest in This
Study
China Events NZ Events
Generation
Generation
ID
ID
Age in 2004
Age in
2004
Consolidation During the Consolidation Era (1950- Baby Grew up in economic
Era
1965), the Chinese Communist Party Boomers prosperity; raised with
50-60+ sought to replace Confucianism with 60+ televisions in the home;
Maoist and Marxist-Leninist ideology;
people in diverse geographic
the Party placed the State and the
locations could watch
Communist Party above traditional
broadcasts of the same events,
individual and family concerns. Due to
sometimes the same shows;
increasing numbers of university
were able to watch the war in
graduates, this group is strongly urged
Vietnam on TV; this
by the Government to retire at 55 for
generation controls most of
women and 60 for men to make room
for those below to move up.
the wealth in the country.
The
Great
Cultural
Revolution
30 - 50
1966-1976 saw the Chinese Communist
Party intensify its attacks on
Confucianism and Western influence in
their quest for ideological purity; the
Cultural Revolution escalated the
discrediting of traditional education, and
ideological moderation was actively
suppressed so as to try to create a
classless society that valued equality,
conformity, and self-sacrifice for
collective interests; the early Cultural
Revolution was a period of extreme
poverty and societal upheaval;
reinstatement of moderate Deng
Xiaoping as vice premier in 1972
restored a measure of societal and
economic order, Mao Zedong’s death in
1976 signalled the end of this period.
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Generation
X
35-45
Though not economically
deprived, grew up in a period
of declining economic growth
compared to parents;
generally earned relatively
less at similar periods in life;
exposed to widespread use of
drugs, divorce of parents
more prevalent; TV was
ubiquitous; lived under cold
war threats.