ABSTRACT
The study of Chinese youth and juveniles emerged in the 1980s as a modern discipline. The Cultural Revolution between 1966 and 1976 brought great changes to the whole society, making the problems experienced by youth and juveniles more salient. After the Cultural Revolution, the whole society showed concern for the problems experienced by youth and juveniles, so relevant studies were undertaken and institutions established quickly. Since 1980, the Social Sciences research departments and the Communist Youth League system in China founded in succession more than 20 institutions engaged in studying youth and juveniles. For example, the Communist Youth League system established the Chinese Centre of the Study of Youth and Juveniles as its core, and the Social Sciences Academy system established central and local institutes for the study of youth and juveniles, including the Institute of Youth and Juvenile Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute of Youth and Juvenile Studies of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, as its representatives. From these efforts, a number of academic periodicals are now published, such as the Youth Study (edited by the Section of the Study of Youth and Juveniles, Sociology Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Contemporary Youth Study (edited by the Institute of the Study of Youth and Juveniles, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences), Chinese Youth Study (edited by the Chinese Centre of the Study of Youth and Juveniles) and the Southern Youth Study (edited by the Guangdong Institute of the Study of Youth and Juveniles).
