Unknotting the Heart : : Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China / / Jie Yang.
Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 6 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The "Heart" of China's Economy
- Part I. Therapeutic Governance
- 1. Happiness and Self-Reflexivity as Therapy
- 2. "We Help You Help Yourself"
- 3. Sending "Warmth" and Therapy
- 4. Thought Work and Talk Therapy
- Part II. Gender and Psychological Labor
- 5. Peiliao and Psychological Labor
- 6. Job Burnout or Suppressed Anger?
- Conclusion. Therapeutic Politics And Kindly Power
- Notes
- References
- Index