TY - BOOK AU - Becker,Catherine TI - China today: “counterfeit paradise” or “delightful hell”? PY - 2022///. N1 - 55 N2 - Contemporary Chinese society has been shaped on the temptation of luxury framed as a system. The middle class has yielded to this temptation that comprises a yearning for elsewhere, for the West, which, at the same time, responds to Chinese philosophy, politics and history. But “this counterfeit paradise” has eventually morphed into a “delightful hell” of sacrifices and corruption. Today, however, the temptation of a new kind of luxury allows the Chinese to redefine themselves within the Chinese society UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-communications-2022-2-page-37?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -