Books by Jie Yang

China's massive economic restructuring in recent decades has generated alarming incidences of mental disorder affecting over one hundred million people.

As China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy.