Seeks To Introduce An Affective Turn To The Study Of China's 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 The Turn Of The Twentieth Century, China's Leading Reformer Liang Qichao (1873-1929) 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 All-inclusive Internal Intellectual, Philosophical, And Moral Transition, Alongside China's Modern Political Reform.