The Silver-Haired Era

Name: The Silver-Haired Era
ISBN: 9781958553084

老龄化社会调查组环球人文出版社Jun 2025

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Word count: 57K words
Chapters: 48
ISBN: 9781958553084

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Summary

By 2035 and 2050, Chinese people aged 65 and above will account for 22.3% and 27.9% of the total population, respectively. A rapidly aging society has drawn widespread attention, and elderly care services are becoming a booming industry. Today’s younger generation faces the triple pressure of work, eldercare, and child-rearing, while the 4-2-1 family structure is now the norm. Population aging will affect the labor force, basic pension insurance, health care, and more, shaping not only older people’s lives today but also young people’s future retirement.

Editor's review

The Silver-Haired Era is not an academic monograph but an in-depth field study conducted over several years by the Aging Society Research Group, an interdisciplinary team. Moving beyond grand policy narratives, it focuses on individual lives and family units, using extensive frontline interviews, case records, and data snapshots to create a warm and complex panorama of China’s aging society. Its core value lies in its sense of immediacy: it documents the digital divide among urban empty-nesters, the health care struggles of left-behind elderly in rural areas, the eldercare anxieties of the first generation of only children’s parents, and how active “unretired” seniors are redefining the value of old age. The editors find the writing plain and restrained yet powerful through authentic detail. It helps readers move beyond the single lens of “eldercare burden” and understand aging as a profound social transformation reshaping family relations, generational ethics, and community ties. Rather than only presenting problems, it records the resilient folk wisdom and mutual-aid practices that emerge spontaneously in difficult circumstances, offering valuable localized material for thinking about how we will grow old.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers interested in social issues who want to go beyond surface news and understand the concrete realities of China’s aging society
Middle-aged and younger adults with older family members who face or are thinking about eldercare, caregiving, and intergenerational communication
Professionals in public services, community work, elderly care, or related fields who need frontline case insights and a humanistic perspective
Readers who enjoy nonfiction and in-depth social reportage with a narrative style grounded in solid fieldwork

Not a good fit for

Pragmatic readers seeking quick solutions or specific retirement investment advice
Pure academic researchers expecting highly theoretical or model-based analysis

Reading tips

Read selectively by chapter theme, starting with cases most relevant to your own family situation and then moving to other social dimensions
As you read, connect the book’s phenomena with your own observations of local communities, linking macro issues to micro experience
The end of the book often includes interview outlines or reflection questions that can serve as prompts for further thinking after reading or for discussion with family and friends

About the publisher

环球人文出版社

Public information about Global Humanities Press is limited, and the available in-house data show that it has published 21 titles. Judging from its list, the press leans toward the humanities, social sciences, and popular science, while also covering film and television, essays and miscellaneous writings, and law. Representative titles range from popular science books such as Packaging, Consumption, Disposal: So That's What Environmental Protection Is About and A Brief History of Ocean Cities, to social-science works such as The Silver Age and The Rule of Law in Society, which address aging and legal issues. It also publishes essays and miscellaneous writings with regional and everyday-life observations, including Jiangnan People, The Age of Village Living, and Journey on the River; The Evolution of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Pop Music reflects its interest in popular culture and film-and-television-related subjects. Its authors include Hu Yudie, the Aging Society Investigation Group, Nine People, Liu Enbao, Mu Jiatong, Gao Yuqi, and Sixteen People, most of whom are writers and teams working on specific issues, giving the press a character that stays close to real-world concerns while combining knowledge popularization with humanistic writing.

版权信息
第一章现代年轻人的未来式
一、人口老龄化的概念
二、人口老龄化对现代年轻人的影响
三、目前我国的主要养老模式
四、当下年轻人对自己养老规划的基础认知、模式偏好、期望
五、结论
第二章农村家庭养老的生命力
一、家庭养老还存在强劲的生命力
二、对当前解决农村养老问题的基本设想
第三章城乡养老中的代际冲突
一、当“尊老”变得遥不可及
二、爱·回家：城市与乡村的代际冲突
三、绝望的孤独背后，是生命的尽头
第四章以江苏耘林养老服务为例浅析我国养老服务发展
一、引言
二、背景
三、我国养老模式
四、分析
第五章基于乡村振兴战略背景和健康中国战略背景下的乡村康养产业的研究——以吉林延边朝鲜族自治州和龙市头道镇为例
一、导论
二、研究区域的现状分析
三、该地发展的对策及建议
四、总结与反思
第六章四川省眉山市青神县高台镇养老探索
一、乡村养老会存在的阻碍
二、乡村养老模式的探索
第七章年轻人眼中的养老问题
一、年轻人调研数据总体分析
二、关于养老规划的模式偏好
三、未来养老结构分析
四、年轻人养老问题解决办法
第八章中日养老模式比较研究
一、中日老龄化现状
二、中日养老现状
三、案例分析
四、中日养老模式的比较和发展趋势
五、中国养老面临的挑战与建议
第九章中国老龄化社会现状及解决方案
一、当前养老现状、对象以及发展趋势
二、当前主要养老模式及遇到的问题
三、国内外差别及其各自优点
四、面对当前问题的解决对策
第十章多国家养老模式浅析及中国城市养老服务体系构建初探
一、多国家养老模式特点分析
二、国外完善养老体系的主要经验
三、中国养老模式及特点分析
四、中国养老模式未来发展趋势

FAQ

Are the data and cases in this book outdated?

The research was concentrated in the past five years, and the cases have clear contemporary features, such as smartphone use and the impact of the pandemic, so they reflect current challenges and the new normal of an aging society well. Specific figures may change over time, but the structural problems and human concerns it reveals remain valuable for reference.

What is the background of the author, the Aging Society Research Group?

It is a loose collaborative team of sociology scholars, veteran journalists, and public-interest practitioners, not an official institution. Its strengths are diverse perspectives and flexible methods that allow observation at different levels. The results emphasize documenting phenomena and society rather than making policy recommendations.

Is this book very heavy to read?

The book does confront many real difficulties, but its tone is documentary rather than melodramatic. It also records older people’s adaptability, warm moments of community mutual aid, and understanding and growth between generations. While readers feel the complexity, they also see resilience and hope.

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老龄化社会调查组 Author

The Aging Society Survey Group appears as a collectively authored byline, and publicly available information about it is limited; its nature and membership have not been clearly stated. Judging from its only work in the catalog, The Silver-Haired Era, and from its classification under social culture, the group's writing focuses on social issues related to population aging, including the living conditions of older adults, intergenerational relations, and the realities of elder care, and seeks to present these phenomena through investigative reporting or social observation. A collective byline usually implies collaboration among several people, compilation of materials, and division of writing tasks, with a style likely oriented toward factual review and case presentation rather than personal theoretical exposition. Only one work under this byline is currently known, and its continuing writing plans and future output remain unclear; readers may learn more about its focus and approach from the specific content of The Silver-Haired Era.