{"product_id":"affective-betrayal-jean-tsui-9781438498799","title":"Affective Betrayal: Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in Late Qing China","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeeks to introduce an \"affective turn\" to the study of China's political modernization process.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAffective Betrayal\u003c\/i\u003e uses \"affect\" as an analytical category to explicate the fragility and fragmentation of Chinese political modernity. In so doing, the book uncovers some of the unresolved moral and philosophical obstacles China encountered in the past, as well as the cultural predicament the country faces at present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the turn of the twentieth century, China's leading reformer Liang Qichao (1873-1929) presented modern political knowledge in musical and visual representational formats that were designed to stimulate readers' bodily senses. By expanding the reception of textual knowledge from \"reading\" to \"listening\" and \"visualizing experiences,\" Liang generated an epistemic shift, and perhaps an all-inclusive internal intellectual, philosophical, and moral transition, alongside China's modern political reform. By tracing the marginalized academic and philosophical positions Liang sought to restore in China's incipient democratic movement, \u003ci\u003eAffective Betrayal\u003c\/i\u003e examines how his attempts to conjoin Confucian morality and liberal democracy expose hidden anxieties as well as inherent contradictions between these two systems of thought. These conflicts, besides disrupting the stability of China's burgeoning modern political order, explain why the import of modern concepts led to China's continued political impasse, rather than rationality and progress, after the 1911 revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Tsui\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438498799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438498799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d","brand":"Jean Tsui","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46685857972479,"sku":"9781438498799","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_23870e1f-f67b-430b-bef7-f5fdb652dcad.jpg?v=1741726981","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/affective-betrayal-jean-tsui-9781438498799","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}