ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Chinese dream in policy discourse, academic discourse, public propaganda and online spoofing culture. It examines the appearance and disappearance of the Chinese dream of a harmonious world. Xi Jinping's proposal of the Chinese dream appears as a timely boon to Chinese politics, with the potential to generate unity and fill a space left by the disappearance of harmony. Every generation of Chinese leadership uses set phrases to stamp their mark on Chinese politics and harmonious world was Hu Jintao's legacy. When Li Huaxin reiterates that the aims of the 'Chinese Dream' are not to conquer, exceed or replace anyone, he nonetheless replicates the imagery of a movement of a new and better world from inside the People's Republic of China (PRC) to its outside. The nostalgia in the Chinese dream posters, then, is not simply for a time when China was strong, pure and stable under Confucian filial hierarchy or Maoist patriotic fervour.
