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.