Table of Contents for Only Hope

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1.                  “The Next Few Months Will Determine Your Future”: Eight Teenagers’ Stories

2.                  Great Expectations: Singletons as the Vanguard of Modernization

3.                  Heavy is the Head of the “Little Emperor”: Pressure, Discipline, and Competition in the Stratification System

4.                  “Beat Me Now and I’ll Beat You When You’re Old”: Love, Filial Duty,s and Parental Investment in an Aging Population

5.                  “Spoiled”: First World Youth in the Third World

Conclusion: Making a Road to the First World

Appendix: biographical Details of People Quoted or Mentioned in this Book

Notes

Works Cited

Index