Many young Chinese feel they have been denied the dream of globalisation

Dancing in a club in Shanghai, China. Most clubbers are moderately affluent members of China's Generation Z who skip easily across cultures, viewing their own as about equal to others. Photograph: Hector Retamal/AFP The club was hard to find and it involved walking through a mall after all the shops were closed, into a tower block and up a few floors in a lift. Inside it was dark but unexpectedly spacious, with tables arranged in concentric circles around a dance floor that looked up into a broad, black, tubular dome at least 20m tall. Groups clustered around tables at the…