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Chinese Discourses on Happiness

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: HK : Hong Kong University Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (245 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789888455515
  • 9888455516
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BF575 .C456 2019
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Contents:
Subject: Happiness is on China's agenda. From Xi Jinping's ""Chinese Dream"" to online chat forums, the conspicuous references to happiness are hard to miss. This groundbreaking volume analyzes how different social groups make use of the concept and shows how closely official discourses on happiness are intertwined with popular sentiments. The Chinese Communist Party's attempts to define happiness and well-being around family-focused Han Chinese cultural traditions clearly strike a chord with the wider population. The collection highlights the links connecting the ideologies promoted by the government.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction BF575.27 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1097983263

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Happiness in Chinese Socialist Discourse; 2. Tibet and Happiness in Chinese Media Discourses; 3. Happiness "with a Chinese Taste"; 4. "As Long as My Daughter Is Happy"; 5. Smile Yourself Happy; 6. "Happy Housewives"; 7. Cultivating Capacity for Happiness as a Confucian Project in Contemporary China; 8. Talking of Happiness; 9. Chinese Happiness; 10. The Happiness of Unrealizable Dreams; Contributors; Index

Happiness is on China's agenda. From Xi Jinping's ""Chinese Dream"" to online chat forums, the conspicuous references to happiness are hard to miss. This groundbreaking volume analyzes how different social groups make use of the concept and shows how closely official discourses on happiness are intertwined with popular sentiments. The Chinese Communist Party's attempts to define happiness and well-being around family-focused Han Chinese cultural traditions clearly strike a chord with the wider population. The collection highlights the links connecting the ideologies promoted by the government.

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