Global futures in East Asia  youth, nation, and the new economy in uncertain times /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Ann Anagnost, Andrea Arai, and Hai Ren. 
 - Stanford, Calif. :  Stanford University Press,  c2013. 
 - x, 311 p. 
 - Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : life making in neoliberal times / Ann Anagnost -- The middle-class norm and responsible consumption in China's risk society / Hai Ren -- Miraculous rebirth : making global places in Taiwan / Ching-wen Hsu -- On the streets of Beijing : medical melodrama in the everyday / Trang X. Ta -- On their own : becoming cosmopolitan subjects beyond college in South Korea / Nancy Abelmann, So Jin Park and Hyunhee Kim -- Smile Chaoyang : education and culture in neoliberal Taiwan / Nickola Pazderic -- "What if your client/employer treats her dog better than she treats you?" : market militarism and market humanism in postsocialist Beijing / YAN Hairong -- Notes to the heart : new lessons in national sentiment and sacrifice from recessionary Japan / Andrea G. Arai -- Neoliberal speech acts : the Equal Opportunity Law and projects of the self in a Japanese corporate office / Miyako Inoue -- Workplace dramas and labor fantasies in 1990s Japan / Gabriella Lukacs -- Governmental entanglements : the ambiguities of progressive politics in neoliberal reform in South Korea / Jesook Song. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780804784689 (e-book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Youth--Employment--East Asia--Case studies.<br/>Neoliberalism--East Asia--Case studies.<br/>Globalization--Economic aspects--East Asia--Case studies.<br/>Ethnology--East Asia--Case studies.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>East Asia--Economic conditions--21st century.