As Melinda Liu writes in Newsweek, China’s new communist party boss, Xi Jinping, is inspiring his countrymen with talk of a Chinese renaissance. He has tried to combat bureaucracy and cut back on officials’ perks, trimming excess spending on unnecessary expenditures, while encouraging the country’s citizens to pursue the “Chinese Dream.”
This mood of national revival has many young workers hopeful about the future—although the reality of day-to-day life is not without struggle. Newsweek photographer Jia DaiTengFei follows young Chinese through the trials and tribulations of marriage, family, divorce, and working in modern China.