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Hsu, Becky Yang. "Introduction". The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life, edited by Becky Yang Hsu and Richard Madsen, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019, pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520973671-002

Hsu, B. (2019). Introduction. In B. Hsu & R. Madsen (Ed.), The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life (pp. 1-18). Berkeley: University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520973671-002

Hsu, B. 2019. Introduction. In: Hsu, B. and Madsen, R. ed. The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520973671-002

Hsu, Becky Yang. "Introduction" In The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life edited by Becky Yang Hsu and Richard Madsen, 1-18. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520973671-002

Hsu B. Introduction. In: Hsu B, Madsen R (ed.) The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press; 2019. p.1-18. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520973671-002

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

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

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