The Chinese pursuit of happiness : anxieties, hopes, and moral tensions in everyday life /

"What is happiness and how can we get it? The way people in China ask and try to answer these universal questions tells a lot about the tensions in Chinese culture and society during the present time of political and economic change. These essays by a team of researchers illuminate the causes o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hsu, Becky Yang, 1975- (Editor), Madsen, Richard, 1941- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Since 2000
Happiness > China.
Happiness > Social aspects > China.
Stress (Psychology) > Social aspects > China.
Anxiety > Social aspects > China.
Bonheur > Chine.
Bonheur > Aspect social > Chine.
Stress > Aspect social > Chine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Anxiety > Social aspects
Happiness
Happiness > Social aspects
Social conditions
Stress (Psychology) > Social aspects
China > Social conditions > 2000-
Chine > Conditions sociales > 2000-
China
contemporary chinese society.
different dimensions of happiness.
hopes and frustrations of political reformers.
illuminates causes of anxiety.
modern weddings.
practices of conviviality.
professional tensions of social workers.
reasons for hope in china.
rituals of happiness.
shared meals.
study of happiness in china.
vivid.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Becky Yang Hsu
  • The changing notion of happiness : a history of "Xingfu" / Lang Chen
  • Having it all : filial piety, moral weighting, and anxiety among young adults / Becky Yang Hsu
  • Performing happiness for self and others : weddings in Shanghai / Deborah S. Davis
  • Happy and unhappy meals : culinary expressions of the good life in Shanghai / James Farrer
  • Making the people happy or the government happy? dilemmas of social workers in a morally pluralistic society / Richard Madsen
  • Deriving happiness from making society better : Chinese activists as warring gods / Chih-Jou Jay Chen
  • Epilogue / Richard Madsen.

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