1st Edition

The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia

Edited By Jie Yang Copyright 2014
272 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Foreword, Sara Ahmed  Part I: Introduction The Politics of Affect and Emotion: Imagination, Potentiality and Anticipation in East Asia, Jie Yang  Part II: Happiness and Psychologization 1. Crafting Confucian Remedies for Happiness in Contemporary China: Unraveling the Yu Dan Phenomenon, Yanhua Zhang 2. The Happiness of the Marginalized: Counseling and Self-Reflexivity in China, Jie Yang  Part III: Body, Affect, and Subjectivity 3. Banking in Affects: The Child, a Landscape, and the Performance of a Canonical View, Teresa Kuan 4. Hospitality and Detachment: Japanese Tour Guides’ Affective Labor in Canada, Shiho Satsuka  Part IV: Tears, Media, and Affective Articulation 5. Tears, Capital, Ethics: Television and Public Sphere in Japan, Daniel White 6. Crying Your Heart Out: The Televisual Construction of "Female Laid-Off Workers" and Melodramatic Salvation in the Age of Market Economy, Shuyu Kong  Part V: Gender, Affective Labor, and Biopolitical Economy 7. "Affective Foreigners Save our Elder Citizens": Media Discourse of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Japan, Ayaka Yoshimizu 8. Fulfilling the Self and Transnational Intimacy through Emotional Labor: The Experiences of Migrant Filipino Domestic Workers in South Korea, Toshiko Tsujimoto  Part VI: Affect, Modernity, and Empires 9. Affective Attachments to Japanese Women’s Language: Language, Gender, and Emotion in Colonialism, Momoko Nakamura 10. The Politics of Haan: Affect and the Domestication of Anger in South Korea, Sung Kil Min 11. Familial Communism and Cartoons: An Affective Political Economy of North Korea, Craig MacKie

Biography

Jie Yang is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Canada