What is it about?
This article details the way in which the concept of 'the good life' has been utilized from Mao's era until the present day, examining state propaganda and policy. It specifically analyses how 'the good' life moved from being about provision of life's necessities, to the potential for attainment.
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Why is it important?
The concept of 'the good life' has been prevalent in Chinese culture for generations. Examining it, helps to understand the changes in attitudes at play in China through the communist and 'capitalist/communist' era.
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What constitutes a 'good life' is a philosophical question consistently asked across different societies throughout history. The changes in what is seen as 'a good life' in a country as fast-changing as China then, are extremely interesting in terms of our own thinking.
Dr Alison Hulme
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This page is a summary of: Projecting the Good Life at Home and Abroad: Lineages of the Chinese National Image from 1949 to the Present, New Global Studies, January 2014, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/ngs-2014-0032.
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