Chinese discourses on happiness / edited by Gerda Wielander and Derek Hird.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wielander, Gerda, editor.

Hird, Derek, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Happiness--China.

Happiness.

Self-realization--China.

Self-realization.

Quality of life--China.

Quality of life.

Philosophy, Chinese.

China.

Physical Description:

ix, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2018]

Contents:

1 Happiness in Chinese Socialist Discourse: Ah Q and the "Visible Hand" p. 25 / Gerda Wielander

2 Tibet and Happiness in Chinese Media Discourses: Issues and Contestation p. 44 / Jigme Yeshe Lama

3 Happiness "with a Chinese Taste": An Interpretive Analysis of CCTV's 2014 Spring Festival Galas Public Service Announcement (PSA) "Chopsticks" (Kuaizi pian) p. 64 / Giovanna Puppin

4 "As Long as My Daughter Is Happy": "Familial Happiness" and Parental Support-Narratives for LGBTQ Children p. 86 / Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen

5 Smile Yourself Happy: Zheng Nengliang and the Discursive Construction of Happy Subjects p. 106 / Derek Hird

6 "Happy Housewives": Gender, Class, and Psychological Self-Help in China p. 129 / Jie Yang

7 Cultivating Capacity for Happiness as a Confucian Project in Contemporary China: Texts, Embodiment, and Moral Affects p. 150 / Yanhua Zhang

8 Talking of Happiness: How Hope Configures Queer Experience in China p. 169 / William F. Schroeder

9 Chinese Happiness: A Proverbial Approach to Popular Philosophies of Life p. 189 / Mieke Matthyssen

10 The Happiness of Unrealizable Dreams: On the Pursuit of Pleasure in Contemporary Chinese Popular Fiction p. 208 / Heather Inwood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789888455720

9888455729

OCLC:

1082270245