Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China

The growing political conflicts unfolding in China provide an opportunity for rethinking the cultural politics of affect. Although the political formations in the region can be laden with a multitude of emotions, they tend to be poorly understood. This book explains why affect and emotion matter to Chinese politics from the Mao Zedong to the Xi Jinping era. It makes a unique contribution by investigating why and how affect matters to politics through a series of in—depth case studies of var...