Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Changing Notion of Happiness: A History of Xingfu 19
6. 2. Having It All: Filial Piety, Moral Weighting, and Anxiety among Young Adults 42
7. 3. Performing Happiness for Self and Others: Weddings in Shanghai 66
8. 4. Happy and Unhappy Meals: Culinary Expressions of the Good Life in Shanghai 84
9. 5. Making the People or the Government Happy? Dilemmas of Social Workers in a Morally Pluralistic Society 110
10. 6. Deriving Happiness from Making Society Better: Chinese Activists as Warring Gods 131
11. Epilogue 155
12. REFERENCES 171
13. CONTRIBUTORS 183
14. INDEX 185