| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 189 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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 of anxiety and reasons for hope in China today. They vividly describe the moral dilemmas experienced in contemporary family life, the rituals of happiness performed in modern weddings, the practices of conviviality carried out in shared meals, the professional tensions confronted by social workers, and the hopes and frustrations shared by political reformers"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Happiness -- China.
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Happiness. |
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China. |
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Happiness -- Social aspects -- China.
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Happiness -- Social aspects. |
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Stress (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- China.
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Stress (Psychology) -- Social aspects. |
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Anxiety -- Social aspects -- China.
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Stress (Psychology) |
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Anxiety -- Social aspects. |
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China -- Social conditions -- 2000-
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
2000- |
| Subject |
Anxiety. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 2000 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hsu, Becky Yang, 1975- editor.
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Madsen, Richard, 1941- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chinese pursuit of happiness. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520306325 (DLC) 2019009254 (OCoLC)1097363753 |
| ISBN |
0520973674 (electronic book) |
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9780520973671 (electronic book) |
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9780520306318 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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0520306317 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9780520306325 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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0520306325 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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