Foreword, Sara Ahmed Part I: Introduction The Politics of Affect and Emotion: Imagination, Potentiality and Anticipation in East Asia, Jie Yang Part II: Happiness and Psychologization
1. Crafting Confucian Remedies for Happiness in Contemporary China: Unraveling the Yu Dan Phenomenon, Yanhua Zhang 2. The Happiness of the Marginalized: Counseling and Self-Reflexivity in China, Jie Yang Part III: Body, Affect, and Subjectivity
3. Banking in Affects: The Child, a Landscape, and the Performance of a Canonical View, Teresa Kuan 4. Hospitality and Detachment: Japanese Tour Guides’ Affective Labor in Canada, Shiho Satsuka Part IV: Tears, Media, and Affective Articulation
5. Tears, Capital, Ethics: Television and Public Sphere in Japan, Daniel White
6. Crying Your Heart Out: The Televisual Construction of "Female Laid-Off Workers" and Melodramatic Salvation in the Age of Market Economy, Shuyu Kong Part V: Gender, Affective Labor, and Biopolitical Economy
7. "Affective Foreigners Save our Elder Citizens": Media Discourse of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Japan, Ayaka Yoshimizu 8. Fulfilling the Self and Transnational Intimacy through Emotional Labor: The Experiences of Migrant Filipino Domestic Workers in South Korea, Toshiko Tsujimoto Part VI: Affect, Modernity, and Empires
9. Affective Attachments to Japanese Women’s Language: Language, Gender, and Emotion in Colonialism, Momoko Nakamura
10. The Politics of Haan: Affect and the Domestication of Anger in South Korea, Sung Kil Min
11. Familial Communism and Cartoons: An Affective Political Economy of North Korea, Craig MacKie