The Professional Reintegration of the “Xiagang”

For the majority of forty and fifty-year-olds, middle age is synonymous with socio-professional success and family stability. However, for some of them, this period is full of regrets and distress. In China, the generation encompassing 40 to 55-year-olds is atypical because the journey they have taken to get to this age has been extremely turbulent, marked as it has been by significant historical events; in particular, it was this generation that was sent to the countryside during the Cultura..