The Chinese Dream: Concept and Context

The Impact of Economic Development on Political Interest Across Social Classes in China: Turning the Chinese Dream into a Chinese Reality?

“…The Chinese Dream is broadly considered the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation that will lead to prosperity for the Chinese people on many fronts, including education, employment, environment, housing, public health and etc. Given that the Chinese Dream is built on rhetoric and actions centered around the century of humiliation-from the 1842 defeat in the First Opium War to the defeat of Japan in 1945-it is likely that the Chinese people are already primed to support this dream [27]. Now that it is clear from the findings in this study that the CCP maintains legitimacy across the social strata, the Chinese people may very well champion Xi's efforts to turn the Chinese Dream into a Chinese reality.…”

Interpreting and Understanding “The Chinese Dream” in a Holistic Nexus

“…The cultural and historical nostalgia underneath the Chinese Dream has been the source of driving forces for generations of Chinese revolutionary pioneers to make China return to its glorious past. Therefore, the concept has often been used as a mobilization tool for political Interpreting and Understanding "The Chinese Dream" in a… projects, and the "national humiliation" discourse has been embedded as an integral part of the political projects for nation building and identity construction (Wang 2014).…”

“…It marked a major step to invite foreign as well as overseas Chinese academics to join the exploration of the Chinese Dream. Among the different papers with different analytical views in this special issue, Wang Zheng explores the nexus between the Chinese Dream with China's historical trajectory and identity and with legitimacy, master narrative and domestic politics (Wang 2014). Mahoney sees the Chinese Dream "as a discourse that is historically and politically situated and contextualized within a number of other ongoing narratives and policies in China," and the understanding of the Chinese Dream can only be achieved through "an exercise of political hermeneutics" (Mahoney 2014, p. 15).…”

Chinese Dream and the Innovation of Ideal and Belief Education of College Students

“…Take moral education as a fundamental task of education and cultivate socialist builders and successors." [1] General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "ideal and belief is the communist spirit 'Ca', which means that if there is no ideal and belief or ideal and belief is not firm, then spirit will be 'calcium deficiency', and you will get 'rickets' " [2][3]. Since General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed the theory of "Chinese dream" on November 29, 2012, it quickly sets off to carry out the upsurge of "Chinese dream" educational practice activity, from theory to find the combined point of "Chinese dream" and College students' ideal and belief education, under the background of "Chinese dream", to explore the effective way to strengthen contemporary College students' ideal and belief education.…”