Unlike Taiwan and the US, the price of lying flat is too high for young people in China
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Lying flat, or tang ping in Chinese describes a phenomenon among young people who, instead of striving for higher pay and social status in life, choose to si
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Stuck With Low Pay, How Taiwan's Young Graduates Cope With High Costs
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Why People Are Quitting Jobs and Protesting Work Life From the U.S. to China - Bloomberg
Lying flat': The millennials quitting China's '996' work culture to live 'free of anxiety' - ABC News
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The Phenomenon of 'Lying Flat' Among Chinese Youth
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Why Chinese Graduates Are 'Lying Flat
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China's Bitter Competition and 'Lying Flat' Start at School
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Exhausted and without hope, East Asian youth are 'lying flat
China Insights
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Lying flat': Why some Chinese are putting work second
Young Chinese Nicknames Reveal Intergeneration Socio-Economic Gap
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Chinese are 'lying flat', Americans are on gap years as pessimistic youth take a hard look at traditional jobs
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China's dreamers and dropouts: 'lying flat' generation checks out in Dali