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毕 业 论 文 （ 2012 届） 题 目 中国80后与美国迷惘一代的比较 学 院 外国语学院 专 业 英语（教育） 年 级 2008级 学生学号 12008243493 学生姓名 曹玉姣 指导教师 王晓军 The Comparison Between the “Generation of 1980s” and the “Lost Generation” A Thesis Submitted to School of Foreign Languages and Cultures Ningxia University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Bachelor of Arts by Cao Yujiao School of Foreign Language and Cultures Ningxia University May, 2012 Acknowledgements I am deeply grateful to my supervisor Professor Wang Xiaojun, to whom I owe a great deal of gratitude and appreciation. She gave me many invaluable instructions and helped me much in every stage of my thesis writing.And I also greatly appreciate the help coming from my respectable teachers.Moreover, numerous thanks go to my dear friends and my lovely roommates who spent much time with me on my thesis. Finally, I would like to offer my sincere gratitude to those who spend their precious time in reading this thesis. Abstract This paper analyzes the “spiritual lost” of the the generation of the 1980s and the “lost generation” in the U.S. And also it explores their spiritual performance when they face the transformation of the society. It seems that they are very happy and they do not care about anything, but actually, they are dissatisfied with their life and the society and suffering a lot in their hearts. In the acquisitive society, money becomes more important than ever before and money worship is becoming more and more popular; there are unfair phenomena here and there in the society, which make people hopeless; and people are becoming indifferent and apathetic. By comparing the United States economic conditions, political policies and culture in the period of the 1920-1930 with that of China in the period after the year of the 1980s