Abstract��The author has conducted an in-depth qualitative study on the post 80s freelance musicians in Shanghai. With the narrative method, the study analyses one case by describing the educational experience and realistic everyday-life. It discusses how recreation, as one of the educational culture which exceeds school-life, influences generation of 80s and make them to draw an interesting picture that reflects their living situation and spiritual world with the tendencies of the times. It was found that some of generation of 80s in general and freelance musicians in particular are pursuing a lifestyle which conforms to social order and institution. Meanwhile, they are considering the relationship between self and living-world independently. Implicitly or explicitly, education plays a very important role in the pursuit of the quality of life.
2015, Vol. 18 
