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Acknowledgements
Author Biographies
1. Introduction: A Feminist Study of China's Political Culture
1) A New Paradigm: Structures of Affect
2) An Affective Collaboration
3) The Affective Turn in Political Culture
4) (Re)Turning to Chinese Affect
5) (Re)Turning to Ordinary Affect
6) Turning to Audio-Visuality Mediated Affect
7) Turning to Political Affect
8) The Feminist Approach
9) Chapter Outline
2. Affective Activism: 'No Enemies', 'Love', and Reactionary Impulses
1) Affect as Methodology
2) Data, Research Process, and Ethics
3) Affective Approaches to Non-Violent (and Violent) Resistance
4) Resisting Reactionary Impulses in the Search for 'Love'
5) Transforming Violence via the Ethics of Care
6) Reflexivity in the Pursuit of 'No Enemies' and 'Love'
3. Affective Party Family: Identification of Cadre Descendants
1) Post-1950s Cadre Descendants
2) Growing up in the Compound
3) Affective Attachment to the Party Family
4) Military-Authoritarian Personality
5) Zhiqing and Military Experience
6) Anti-Business Sentiments
7) Internalisation of Misogyny
8) Affective Subjectification of Cadre Descendants
4. Affective Suffering: Cinematic Conversations on China's COVID-19 Control and Ukraine War
1) Affective Cine-Thinking
2) Affective Activist Documentary
3) Affective Ethnohistorical Approach
4) Affective Poetics of People's History
5) Affective Multiple Realities in a Digital Era
6) Affective Activism against War
7) Structural Changes in Media Landscapes and Evolving Forms of Civic Political Engagement
5. Affective Podcasting: Forging Feminist Community for Sinophone-Tibetans
1) Feminist Expressions in Tibet
2) Intimate Voices from the Margins
3) Data, Methods, and Ethics
4) Affective Sinophone-Tibetan Sonic Space for Feminism
5) Herdswomen: Women's Labour
6) Emerging Women Intellectuals: Struggles and Strategies
7) Professional Women: Submission and Transcendence
8) Unfinished Feminism in Tibet
6. Affective Queering: The Visuality of Community-Making
1) Affective Home Searching
2) Queering Affect at the Margins
3) Affect of Everyday Life from a Non-Violent Perspective
4) Affective Approach to the Organic Organisation of Everyday Life
5) Affect of Visuality in the Sinosphere
7. Toward an Affective Ethos: Practices of Self-Making and Solidarity
1) The Ethos of Grassroots Intellectuals in the 2020s China
2) The Ethos of Affective Embodiment
3) The Ethos of Affective Self-Making
4) The Ethos of Affective Border-Crossing
5) The Ethos of Affective Resistance
6) The Epistemology of Affective Ethos
7) Toward an Affective Ethos
Filmography
Reference
Index