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PublisherSTATE University of New York Press

ISBN-101438498780

ISBN-139781438498782

eBay Product ID (ePID)5065708537

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Number of Pages342 Pages

Publication NameAffective Betrayal : Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in Late Qing China

LanguageEnglish

SubjectConfucianism, Asia / China, Political, Linguistics / General

Publication Year2024

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines, History

AuthorJean Tsui

SeriesSuny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight20.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2023-056366

Dewey Edition23/eng/20240510

Reviews"It is high time we had a book-length study on Liang Qichao that truly breaks new ground. Armed with an original conceptual framework as well as an effective analytic apparatus that focuses on the central role of emotion in Liang's political theory, Jean Tsui assiduously tracks the spoor of this towering figure's complex thought throughout the intellectual terrain of the late Qing and early Republic." -- On-cho Ng, Penn State University "This book brings new light to the rich scholarship on Liang Qichao and Chinese political modernity. In its discovery of an 'affective turn' in modern Chinese political philosophy, it offers a non-Western alternative to the ongoing debates on affect and politics in our global situation." -- Pu Wang, Brandeis University

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal320.092

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction: An Affective Turn in the Study of Chinese Political Modernity 1. Repairing the Human, Restoring Their Heartmind 2. Reclaiming Qing Philology to Recover the Innate Moral Order 3. To Know Is to Act: The Realization of Cosmic-Moral-Political Oneness in Action 4. Dissolution of Modern Political Languages in the Cinematic Spectacle 5. Musicality --Representing the Rhythm of Political Revolution and the Tenor of Its Moral Discontent Postscript: Let Us Be Taken by Affect, and to Be Taken Away and Afar Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisSeeks to introduce an "affective turn" to the study of China's political modernization process. Affective Betrayal 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. At 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, Affective Betrayal 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.

LC Classification NumberPL2781.A5Z848 2024