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Informationen zum Autor Charlie Yi Zhang is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky. Klappentext Charlie Yi Zhang examines how the Chinese state deploys affective notions of love to regulate the population in order to secure China’s place in the global economy. Zusammenfassung Charlie Yi Zhang examines how the Chinese state deploys affective notions of love to regulate the population in order to secure China’s place in the global economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Mapping the Edgeless Landscape of Love 1. Love of the Zeitgeist: Temporalized Desire in the PRC's Sixtieth-Anniversary Ceremony 35 2. Only If You Are the One! The Expansive Neoliberal Universe through Love Competitors' Eyes 60 Part II. Tracing the Machinery That Both Integrates China into and Separates It From the World 3. The Woeful Landscape of Love: Work Hard, Dream Big, and Die Slowly 97 4. Lessons from the Polarizing Love: Mapping Contradictions for Social Change 127 5. Love with an Unspeakable Name: The Exceptional Danmei World as the Escape Route 155 Conclusion. Envisioning a Love-Enabled Future 177 Notes 187 Bibliography 227 Index 255