Creating Your Best Life

by Caroline Adams Miller, Michael B. Frisch

Overview

Creating Your Best Life is the only research-based book on the topic of goals and happiness, and it has found receptive audiences worldwide. Filled with interactive exercises and quizzes, it helps readers set and accomplish life list goals and understand the link between goal accomplishment and happiness, also known as Positive Psychology. In a step-by-step fashion, the book teaches readers how to coach themselves on how to set goals in 16 life domains, as well as take control of their environment to maximize their chances of success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402779985
Publisher:	Sterling
Publication date:	01/04/2011
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Pei-yin Lin, Ph.D. (2001), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, is an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. She has published many articles on modern Chinese literature and culture, with a focus on Taiwan.

Weipin Tsai, Ph.D. ( 2004 ), University of Leeds, lectures in Modern Chinese History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Publications include a monograph and articles on Chinese modernisation, print culture, postal services and the Maritime Customs Service.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION
Pei-yin Lin & Weipin Tsai
Chinese modernities revisited: globalization and localization
Fluid modernity and ideas
Print, profit and perceptions

1. CULTURAL CONNECTIONS IN A NEW GLOBAL SPACE: LI SHIZENG AND THE CHINESE FRANCOPHILE PROJECT IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
Paul J. Bailey
Early years in France
Sino-French cultural interaction
Li Shizeng’s philosophy of work-study
Conclusion

2. HEALTH AND HYGIENE IN LATE QING CHINA AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF JAPANESE TRAVELERS
Che-chia Chang
Networks of travelers
Categories of traveler
First impressions: Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!
Understanding the Japanese viewpoint
Conclusion

3. MODERNITY THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION: LU XUN AND THE MODERN CHINESE WOODCUT MOVEMENT
Elizabeth Emrich
Alternative modernities and Lu Xun’s “Grabism”
Lu Xun in Shanghai and his Translations on Art
Lu Xun and woodcut publications
Humanism and social construction in woodblock prints
Lu Xun and Woodcut Print Societies
Conclusion

4. TECHNOLOGY, MARKETS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE: PRINT CAPITALISM IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA
Tze-ki Hon
Local initiatives and domestic factors in technology transfer
Markets, circulation and profits
National learning as cultural capital
Professional geographers and public intellectuals
Conclusion

5. MEDICAL ADVERTISING AND CULTURAL TRANSLATION: THE CASE OF SHENBAO IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA
Max K. W. Huang
Understanding the human body in early republican China
Medical Advertising and Cultural Translation
Conclusion

6. PLANET IN PRINT: THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION IN ZHENG KUNWU’S FICTION DURING TAIWAN’S COLONIAL PERIOD
Mei-e Huang
From astronomical reports to fiction writing
Scientific fantasy and humanistic reality
Between science fiction and detective story
Conclusion

7. SHAPING PERCEPTION OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A STUDY OF TEXTBOOKS IN TAIWAN IN THE 1940s
Shi-chi Mike Lan
Presentation of the War in Japanese colonial texts before 1945
The War in Chinese nationalist texts after 1945
Localizing the War in textbooks: Before and after 1945
Conclusion

8. ENVISIONING THE READING PUBLIC – PROFIT MOTIVES OF A CHINESE-LANGUAGE TABLOID IN WARTIME TAIWAN
Pei-yin Lin
Positioning the Chinese-language tabloids in colonial Taiwan
Chinese literati-courtesan connections and Western exotica
Appropriating and speculating about love
From freedom of love to condemnation of unrestrained free love
Alternative modernity and re-appropriation of love
Conclusion

9. THE FIRST CASUALTY: TRUTH, LIES AND COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNISM IN CHINESE NEWSPAPERS DURING THE FIRST SINO-JAPANESE WAR
Weipin Tsai
War reporting in the West and in China in the second half of the nineteenth century
Battle-ready and eager for the fight
The war for readership
In the newspapers’ defense
Conclusion

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editorial Reviews

Miller (psychology, Univ. of Texas, Dallas) and clinical psychologist Frisch pull from psychological theories on goal setting, social cognitive theory, and learned optimism to help readers achieve goals contributing to their quality of life. The authors emphasize the necessity of creating a life list, which sets goals as to where an individual wants to go in life and what he or she wants to leave behind as a legacy. They provide ideas for happiness boosters (e.g., engaging in physical exercise and volunteer work) and willpower boosters (e.g., hiding temptations and getting rid of clutter) as well as numerous life list exercises and work sheets. A particularly realistic chapter covers overcoming hurdles and failures. A+ for the authors' ability to integrate science with a practical application for the general public. One of the best of its kind.

Library Journal

"Pei-yin Lin and Weipin Tsai deserve recognition for assembling a diverse and thought provoking collection of essays on the history of Chinese globalization and localization in the first half of the twentieth century. [...] the contributors to Print, Profit, and Perception cogently raise many important questions, fill in historical gaps, and open up new discursive space for early twentieth century Chinese historical and literary studies."
Bert Scruggs, University of California, Irvine, MCLC

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