Global futures in East Asia
Subtitle: youth, nation, and the new economy in uncertain times
By: edited by Ann Anagnost, Andrea Arai, and Hai Ren
Series: Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific; Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780804776172; 9780804776189
Subjects: Youth; Ethnology; Case studies; Economic conditions; Employment; Globalization; Neoliberalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : life making in neoliberal times / Ann Anagnost; title: The middle-class norm and responsible consumption in China's risk society / Hai Ren; title: Miraculous rebirth : making global places in Taiwan / Ching-wen Hsu; title: On the streets of Beijing : medical melodrama in the everyday / Trang X. Ta; title: On their own : becoming cosmopolitan subjects beyond college in South Korea / Nancy Abelmann, So Jin Park and Hyunhee Kim; title: Smile Chaoyang : education and culture in neoliberal Taiwan / Nickola Pazderic; title: "What if your client/employer treats her dog better than she treats you?" : market militarism and market humanism in postsocialist Beijing / YAN Hairong; title: Notes to the heart : new lessons in national sentiment and sacrifice from recessionary Japan / Andrea G. Arai; title: Neoliberal speech acts : the Equal Opportunity Law and projects of the self in a Japanese corporate office / Miyako Inoue; title: Workplace dramas and labor fantasies in 1990s Japan / Gabriella Lukacs; title: Governmental entanglements : the ambiguities of progressive politics in neoliberal reform in South Korea / Jesook Song.