Chinese Discourses on Happiness /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hird, Derek (Editor), Wielander, Gerda (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Chinese philosophy
Quality of life > China.
Self-realization > China.
Happiness > China.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Happiness in Chinese socialist discourse: Ah Q and the "visible hand" / Gerda Wielander
  • Tibet and happiness in Chinese media discourses: issues and contestation / Jigme Yeshe Lama
  • Happineses "with a Chinese taste": an interpretative analysis of CCTV's 2014 Spring Festival Gala's public service announcement (PSA) "chopsticks" (Kuaizi pian) / Giovanna Puppin
  • "As long as my daughter is happy": "familial happiness" and parental support-narratives for LGBTQ children / Elisabeth Lund Engebresten
  • Smile yourself happy: Zheng Nengliang and the discursive construction of happy subjects / Derek Hird
  • "Happy housewives": gender, class, and psychological self-help in China / Jie Yang
  • Cultivating capacity for happiness as a Confucian project in contemporary China: texts, embodiment, and moral affects / Yanhua Zhang
  • Talking of happiness: how hope configures queer experience in China / William F. Schroeder
  • Chinese happiness: a proverbial approach to popular philosophies of life / Mieke Matthyssen
  • The happiness of unrealizable dreams: on the pursuit of pleasure in contemporary Chinese popular fiction / Heather Inwood.

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