Format:
Online-Ressource (273 p)
ISBN:
9780415709705
Series Statement:
Asia's Transformations
Content:
When thinking about the culture and economy of East Asia, many attribute to the region a range of dispositions, including a preference for consensus and social harmony, loyalty and respect towards superiors and government, family values, collectivism, and communitarianism. Affect is central to these concepts, and yet the role of affect and its animated or imagined potentialities in the political economy of East Asia has not been systematically studied. The book examines the affective dimensions of power and economy in East Asia. It illuminates the dynamics of contemporary governance, and ways
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Part I Introduction; The politics of affect and emotion: imagination, potentiality and anticipation in East Asia; Part II Happiness and psychologization; 1 Crafting Confucian remedies for happiness in contemporary China: unraveling the Yu Dan phenomenon; 2 The happiness of the marginalized: affect, counseling and self-reflexivity in China; Part III Body, affect and subjectivity; 3 Banking in affects: the child, a landscape and the performance of a canonical view
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4 Hospitality and detachment: Japanese tour guides' affective labor in CanadaPart IV Tears, media and affective articulation; 5 Tears, capital, ethics: television and the public sphere in Japan; 6 Melodrama for change: gender, kuqing xi and the affective articulation of Chinese TV drama; Part V Gender, affective labor and biopolitical economy; 7 ""Affective foreigners save our elder citizens"": gender, affective labor and biopolitics in Japan; 8 Fulfilling the self and transnational intimacy through emotional labor: the experiences of migrant Filipino domestic workers in South Korea
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Part VI Affect, modernity and empires9 Affective attachments to Japanese women's language: language, gender and emotion in colonialism; 10 The politics of haan: affect and the domestication of anger in South Korea; 11 Familial communism and cartoons: an affective political economy of North Korea; Index
Additional Edition:
9781134634576
Additional Edition:
Print version The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia
Language:
English
Keywords:
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