Jie Yang is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. She is the editor of The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia.

With this book, Yang makes an important contribution by exploring the subjectivities of unemployed workers in China and by making visible the often hidden ideological struggle between the state and the unemployed workers over the interpretation of dislocation and unemployment.- Ofer Sharone (ILR Review) Unknotting the Heart offers invaluable information and insights into the lived experiences of laid-off workers and the state's responses in China. Being the first book-length ethnography on the recent rise of Western psychotherapy in China, it will be of great interest to scholars in China studies, medical anthropology, and psychology.- Hsuan-Ying Huang (Pacific Affairs)

Jie Yang is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. She is the editor of The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia.

With this book, Yang makes an important contribution by exploring the subjectivities of unemployed workers in China and by making visible the often hidden ideological struggle between the state and the unemployed workers over the interpretation of dislocation and unemployment.- Ofer Sharone (ILR Review) Unknotting the Heart offers invaluable information and insights into the lived experiences of laid-off workers and the state's responses in China. Being the first book-length ethnography on the recent rise of Western psychotherapy in China, it will be of great interest to scholars in China studies, medical anthropology, and psychology.- Hsuan-Ying Huang (Pacific Affairs)

Jie Yang is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. She is the editor of The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia.

With this book, Yang makes an important contribution by exploring the subjectivities of unemployed workers in China and by making visible the often hidden ideological struggle between the state and the unemployed workers over the interpretation of dislocation and unemployment.- Ofer Sharone (ILR Review) Unknotting the Heart offers invaluable information and insights into the lived experiences of laid-off workers and the state's responses in China. Being the first book-length ethnography on the recent rise of Western psychotherapy in China, it will be of great interest to scholars in China studies, medical anthropology, and psychology.- Hsuan-Ying Huang (Pacific Affairs)