In the 1980s, China and its people shook off the shadow of the Cultural Revolution and ushered in the liberation and freedom of reform and opening up. During these decades, almost every aspect of Chinese people's daily lives underwent radical changes-from layoffs to going to sea, from units to enterprises, from KFC to commercial insurance, from daily consumption to farmers moving to the cities ......... The arrival of modernity has inevitably eliminated once-entrenched common traits and ideologies, and it has pushed people to reconfigure their belief systems.
