Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times (Contemporary Issues in Asia and Pacific) (56 page)

Neoliberal speech acts,
202

New Kujiang shopping area, Kaohsiung, Taiwan,
16–17
,
53–72

New Kujiang Shopping Mall (NKSM), Kaohsiung, Taiwan,
57–60

Night markets,
62–63

Nippon Telephone and Telegraph,
198

NKSM.
See
New Kujiang Shopping Mall (NKSM), Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Nosukcha
(people who sleep in the street),
256
,
257

Notes to the Heart
(booklets),
20
,
179

Ōta Tōru,
234

Office ladies (OL),
222
,
228–30
,
233
,
239
,
241
,
244
n
2

Ogasawara Yuko,
241

Olympics, in China,
87
,
96
n
3

One-child policy,
82
,
85

Ong, Aihwa,
13

Ordinary affects,
93

Oshin
(television show),
156–57

Park, Sojin,
18

Pazderic, Nickola,
18–19

Peace constitution (Japan),
176
,
182
,
196
n
13

Peck, Jamie,
183

Philanthropy,
46

Place/space,
15–17
,
54
,
59–66
,
74
n
13

Post-Fordism,
184
,
198

Postindustrial development, in Taiwan,
16
,
18–19
,
59
,
71

Poverty alleviation,
151–52

Productive welfarism,
252
,
255

Readings, Bill,
143–44
,
148
,
148
n
2

Reagan, Ronald,
183

Ren, Hai,
15

Renan, Ernest,
174

Responsibility: in China,
30
,
33–36
,
42–48
; government’s abandonment of,
5
,
30
,
33–35
,
46
,
81
,
250
; inculcation of middle-class,
47
; in Japanese education,
187
,
189–94
; neoliberalism and,
3
,
5
,
21–22
,
81
,
91
,
98
n
15
,
122
,
193–94
;
social,
promoted through television shows,
226
,
243
; social welfare and,
213–14
; workers and,
22–23
,
205–6
,
211–14

Risk society,
30
,
33

Risk subjects,
15–16
,
44–48

Roh Moo Hyun,
250

Rose, Nikolas,
91
,
210

Rural areas: characteristics of people from,
162–63
; domestic workers from,
150–51
; health care in,
76–79
,
85
,
95
n
2
; urban vs.,
77
,
87
,
162–63

Ryoichi, Kawakami,
186

Sacrifice, for nation,
174–78
,
181
,
194

SCCUP.
See
Seoul City Committee for Unemployment Problems

Schmitt, Carl,
51
n
26

Self-development: in China,
36–48
,
91
; of domestic workers in China,
161–71
; gender reform and,
22
; in Japan,
125
n
8
,
187–94
; military model and,
160
; and national spirit,
177–78
; in South Korea,
100–123
; of subjects,
5–6
,
18
; of workers,
18–23
,
26
n
11
.
See also
Identity; Life-building and life-making

Sentiment, for nation,
174–94

Seoul City Committee for Unemployment Problems (SCCUP),
257–59

Sex industry,
235

Sexism,
202–3

Shanghai World Exposition (2010),
47

Shomuni
(television series),
22–23
,
222–23
,
229
,
233–44

Shopping districts,
53–72

Shopping malls,
49
n
10

Shūkan Mōningu
(magazine),
233

Simmel, Georg,
83

Simon, Scott,
70

Single Lives
(television series),
229

Sino-British Joint Declaration (1948),
31–32

Smiling.
See
Happiness and smiling

Social contract, between state and citizen,
4–6

Socialist realism,
81–82

Socialist work units,
33

Social realism, on television,
225–28

Social welfare: in China,
33
; neoliberalism and,
45
,
213–14
; and responsibility,
213–14
; in South Korea,
24
,
252–72
; transformations in,
4–5

Song, Jesook,
6
,
23–24

South Korea: economy of,
250
,
252–54
,
272
n
3
; family in,
124
n
4
,
256–57
,
262–63
,
265–67
,
273
n
10
; freedom in,
23–24
,
27
n
14
; inequality in,
101
,
109–10
; intellectuals in,
248–51
,
257–72
,
272
n
5
; neoliberalism in,
101
,
104–7
,
248–72
; politics in,
250–72
; recent history of,
249–50
; self-development in,
100–123
; social welfare in,
24
,
252–72
; state-citizen social contract in,
6

Space.
See
Place/space

Speaking bitterness narratives,
91

Special economic zones,
32

Spectacle,
89–90

Stewart, Kathleen,
93–94

Strange youth,
20
,
179
,
185–87

Street vending,
58–66
,
74
n
16
,
75
n
17

Structural socioeconomic factors: in China,
34
,
45
,
88
,
92
; individual factors obscuring,
88
,
92
,
101
,
105
,
121–22
,
187
,
188
,
210–11
,
214–15
,
220
; in South Korea,
101
,
104–6

Subjectivity, literary,
164

Subjects: in China,
29
,
32–48
; gender reform and,
21–22
; as human capital,
26
n
11
; in Japanese television,
228–33
,
240
,
243–44
; neoliberal,
12–15
,
47–48
,
89
,
101–23
; postindustrial,
16
; risk subjects,
15–16
; self-development of,
5–6
,
18
,
26
n
11
; workers as,
153
,
205–8
,
228–33
,
240
.
See also
Responsibility

Sun Yat-Sen,
136

“Survivor” (television show),
161

Suzhi
(quality),
104

Suzuki Masayuki,
234

Ta, Trang X.,
17

Taiwan: China and,
30
,
70–71
,
129
,
140
; consumption and place-making in,
53–72
; education in,
18–19
; Enlightenment values in,
136–39
; freedom in,
27
n
14
; history of,
55–57
; identity in,
70
,
129–30
; international connections in,
66–72
; Japan and,
55–56
,
67–68
,
73
n
5
,
148
n
4
; Neo-Confucianism in,
131–35
; neoliberalism in,
128
,
139–48
; population policies in,
149
n
11
; postindustrial development in,
16
,
18–19
,
59
,
71
; production of goods in,
70–71
; street vending in,
58–66
,
74
n
16
,
75
n
17
; United States and,
56–57
,
73
n
6
,
129
,
131
,
140

Takahashi Rumi,
229
,
234
,
235
,
240–41

Takahashi Tetsuya,
175–77

Takeshi, Beat-o,
191–92

Tang Min,
150–51

Tarento
(celebrity) system,
227
,
234

Taylor, Frederick,
161

Television: Japanese industry,
245
n
4
; love/trendy dramas on,
223–32
,
243–44
; social realism in,
225–28
; workplace dramas on,
6
,
22–23
,
222–44

Thatcher, Margaret,
127
,
183

Themed built environments,
36
,
38–39

Third Way,
255–56

Tickell, Adam,
183

Tokyo Keizai Shinbun
(newspaper),
233

Totalitarianism,
93–94

Toyotism,
184

Treaty ports,
55
,
73
n
4

Trendy dramas.
See
Love/trendy dramas

Tsing, Anna,
7–8
,
180

United Kingdom,
4

United Nations,
199

United States: and Japan,
183
; military model of,
159–61
; and modernization theory,
183
; and Taiwan,
56–57
,
73
n
6
,
129
,
131
,
140
; welfare in,
213–14

University education: in South Korea,
100–123
; in Taiwan,
127–48

Value.
See
Human value

Vendors, street,
58–66
,
74
n
16

Vogel, Steven,
240

Voluntarism,
168–69
,
173
n
16

Volunteerism,
173
n
16

Walkerdine, Valerie,
122

Wang, Hui-lan,
127–28

Wang, Jing,
49
n
9
,
88

Wang Hui,
164

Wang Tao,
47

Wang Xiaoming,
49
n
8

Weaker groups.
See
Disadvantaged groups

Welfare.
See
Social welfare

Wilde, Oscar,
168

Wilson, Richard W.,
131–32

Women: education of,
19
,
21–22
; homeless, in South Korea,
258–59
,
263–67
; and labor,
19
,
21–22
,
197–221
,
222
,
226
,
228–44
; as responsible for gender equality,
211–14

Workers: and affective labor,
18, 18–19
; in China,
33
; as commodities,
152–56
; in neoliberal contexts,
14–15
,
152–54
,
156
,
161
,
192–93
,
223–24
,
230–33
,
240–44
; and responsibility,
22–23
,
205–6
,
211–14
; and self-development,
5–6
,
18–23
,
26
n
11
; subjectivity of,
153
,
205–8
,
228–33
,
240
; women as,
19
,
21–22
,
197–221
,
222
,
226
,
228–44
.
See also
Domestic labor; Freeters

Workplace dramas,
6
,
22–23
,
222–44

Yamada Masahiro,
231

Yamaguchi Masatoshi,
225–26
,
227

Yasuda Hiroyuki,
233

Youth: and labor,
1
,
104
; and popular culture,
58

Yu Wenlie,
33

Žižek, Slavoj,
135

Zhang Yuchen,
32

Zhao Le
(film),
246
n
23

Zhou Huajian,
167

Zhu Dongli,
164

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