{"product_id":"the-cultural-politics-of-affect-and-emotion-by-wei-dong-9783837662849","title":"The Cultural Politics of Affect and Emotion","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst the background of the media commercialization reform since the 1990s in China and drawing on the case of \u003cem\u003eX-Change\u003c\/em\u003e (2006-2019), Wei Dong investigates the entanglements between emotion and subjectivity, ideology, identity and hegemonic power in the multimodal text of the program.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe focus lies on the ways in which emotions are appropriated and disciplined by regimes of power and identity, and the ways in which affect — in this case primarily \u003cem\u003ekuqing\u003c\/em\u003e (bitter emotions) communicated by the material and the body — have the potential to challenge or exceed existing relations of power in the mediascape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWei Dong shows how Chinese reality TV provides a historical and theoretical opportunity for understanding the affective structures of contemporary China in the dynamic process of fracture and integration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464310636780,"sku":"9783837662849","price":104.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783837662849-the-cultural-politics-of-affect-and-emotion.jpg?v=1775046293","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-cultural-politics-of-affect-and-emotion-by-wei-dong-9783837662849","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}