Seeks to introduce an affective turn to the study of Chinas political modernization process.Affective Betrayal uses affect as an analytical category to explicate the fragility and fragmentation of Chinese political modernity. In so doing the book uncovers some of the unresolved moral and philosophical obstacles China encountered in the past as well as the cultural predicament the country faces at present.At the turn of the twentieth century Chinas leading reformer Liang Qichao 18731929 presented modern political knowledge in musical and visual representational formats that were designed to stimulate readers bodily senses. By expanding the reception of textual knowledge from reading to listening and visualizing experiences Liang generated an epistemic shift and perhaps an allinclusive internal intellectual philosophical and moral transition alongside Chinas modern political reform.