To put it in more concrete terms, what if the body and its actions contribute heat (physical and metaphoric) and noise to a social event while the red-hot sociality thus produced is to characterize the social event itself rather than (or in addition to) any concrete individually-felt sensory experience? The Chinese folk theory of red-hot sociality points to such a modality of socio-sensory amalgam in which what is privileged is not so much the sensing subject as the heat-and-noise-producing subject. The heat in honghuo (red-fiery) and re’nao (hot-noisy) is thought to reside in the social gathering and is not necessarily a physical/physiological sensation felt by the people in the gathering.