 | Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China Subjects: Unemployment -- China -- Beijing -- Psychological aspects; Unemployed -- Counseling of -- China -- Beijing; Psychology Industrial -- Political aspects -- China -- Beijing; Labor policy -- China -- Beijing -- Psychological aspects; Counseling psychology -; 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 being laid off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Jie Yang is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. She is the editor of The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia . |
