Description: Examines the central role of affect and gender in shaping personality, community, nationhood and political discourse in contemporary China.
Brief description: Jinyan Zeng is a Substitute Lecturer (former Postdoctoral Fellow) at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden. She is the author of Feminism and Genesis of the Citizen Intelligentsia in China (2016).
Review Quotes: "In Structures of Affect, Jinyan Zeng and Xibai Xu offer a searching account of China's political culture, weaving feminist theory, autoethnography and cultural practice into a powerful transnational intervention. The book opens a renewed understanding of how authoritarian power is sustained, contested and lived in intimate and collective spheres-from cadre elite masculinist worldviews and cinematic COVID/Ukraine critiques, to Sinophone-Tibetan feminist communities and gendered hierarchies within activism. Its bold, original analysis of everyday political formations is especially gripping. Moving beyond ideology, it reveals the textures of power in everyday feeling and practice, offering a vital framework for affective politics under repression." --Sara Liao, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA