The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness
Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life
Exploring how various versions of happiness derive from individual endeavors of living up to certain core virtues, this book offers a highly original and excellent account of what constitutes a good life and a good society in contemporary China. A must-read!—Yunxiang Yan, author of The Individualization of Chinese Society This is a highly original work that sheds light on what ‘a good life’ means in contemporary China. In an era when many lament society’s spiritual vacuum and loss of shared values, this book shows that there are still common threads tying together how Chinese people imagine and pursue happiness.—Anthony J. Spires, Universit…
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Weitere Autoren: Madsen, Richard (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-520-30631-8
- EAN: 9780520306318
- Produktnummer: 30140635
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.0 cm 454 g
- Gewicht: 454
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Becky Yang Hsu is Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and the author of Borrowing Together. Richard Madsen is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of numerous books on Chinese societies.
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The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness
Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life
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