The politics of care during COVID-19: The visibility of anti-virus measures in Wuhan

Sier, Willy

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“…Based on their experience in the SARS epidemic, Chinese political and medical authorities reacted quickly, mobilizing an enormous amount of material and human resources, such as holding simulations of epidemics at hospitals with patients treated in special rooms dedicated to respiratory diseases and constructing military field hospitals. Also, by designing and presenting a solid and coherent representation of the danger of the disease and of the measures needed to counter it, Chinese authorities employed a nationalist rhetoric aimed at proving the superiority of the Chinese political system, creating the "politics of care" (Sier, 2021) in the name of protecting Chinese citizens from the virus.…”

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Between Two Worlds: the Chinese Diaspora in France during Covid-19

Wang,

Madrisotti

2023

Chinese in France Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic

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In the introduction, it is firstly recalled the social and historical context of the Covid-19 pandemic and explicated why authors chose to examine the pandemic through the perspective of the diaspora studies and in particular from the perspective of the Chinese diaspora in France. After a presentation of the specificities of the Chinese diaspora in France, the introduction draws up the key study question of the whole book: studying the differentiated experiences of the pandemic among the Chinese population in France, according to their migratory status (nonnaturalized migrants, French naturalized migrants and descendants of migrants) and other social relationships; placing these experiences in the context of what is happening in France, China and the rest of the world. As background, it is crucial to understand the different social construction of the Covid-19 pandemic in China and in France. Afterwards, the MigraChiCovid project's genesis, mixed methodology and qualitative and quantitative data are introduced. The introduction is concluded with the presentation of the three sections and the brief summaries of the twelve book chapters.

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Between Two Worlds: the Chinese Diaspora in France during Covid-19

Wang,

Madrisotti

2023

Chinese in France Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic

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“…Many examples of research into the influence of Covid-19 on China's economy and security, as well as the issue of management of the pandemic, can be found in the issues of journals published during the pandemic (Chena et al, 2021;Corbet et al, 2022;Fan et al, 2022;Hu, Li and Dong, 2022;Jing, 2021;Li et al, 2021;Liu, 2021;Pu and Zhong, 2020;Si et al, 2021;Sier, 2021;Wang et al, 2020;Xu, Li and Wei, 2022;Yang and Yang, 2021). Studies on the perception of China after Covid-19 and its vaccine diplomacy show that even in difficult times, it is possible to build a positive image of the state and to influence other states with soft power (Lu and Atadil, 2021;Verma, 2020).…”

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COVID-19 Implications for China's National Security

Gębska¹,

Krukowska²

2022

Security and Defence Quarterly

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The COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020 and China has since been under public scrutiny for neglecting the first signs of this global health challenge and for its lockdown strategy. Although lockdowns have not lasted for long, China needs to confront the political, social, and economic implications for its national security. The paper aims to fill a gap in the knowledge and investigate aspects of China’s national security in light of the pandemic. The study is based on desk research using secondary data and statistical and comparative analysis. It also employs an inductive method to build general theorems. The Chinese government can be seen as successful in dealing with the pandemic because of a low death toll and minimal economic losses. By early February 2022, only 106,863 Chinese had been diagnosed, and 4,636 had died from the virus. China also achieved enviable economic success and, its output grew by 18.3% year on year in the first quarter of 2021, the fastest rate since the 1990s, and it was the first major economy to withdraw its pandemic stimulus. China consolidated its position in low-income countries and improved its image as a global leader in trade by supplying vaccines, masks and ventilators, and strengthened its geopolitical standing. It will face threats from other countries working on a joint approach to the challenges posed by Beijing and while the aftereffects of the crisis can be seen, it also fears that they might further affect China's national security.

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“…Fang Fang was also former chair of Hubei's Writers' Association, and as such we believe her prominent position as a local writer and accountability to tell the story of Wuhan was significantly strong and relevant. Fang Fang is an insider of the then status quo in Wuhan, and this makes her diary unique and this research significant given the fact that few studies have examined recent competing narratives of COVID-19 with a few exceptions (Litzinger & Ni, 2021;Sier, 2021;Zhang & Chow 2021;Zhang, 2021). Fang Fang's digital diary provides a deeper understanding of how both people in society and digital media reflected on China's efforts to contain the coronavirus, and the serious disruption of these policies to traditional mourning rituals.…”

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The Rite of Passage and Digital Mourning in Fang Fang’sWuhan Diary

Whyke

Lopez-Mugica

Chen

2021

Global Media and China

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Using Van Gennep’s theory of Rite of Passage as its framework, this article examines the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Chinese culture as depicted through death and mourning in Wang Fang’s (penname Fang Fang) recently published Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City. As part of the efforts to control the outbreak, the Chinese government took over the managing of the deceased, which triggered heated discussions on Chinese social media. Fang Fang’s diary, originally written as daily entries on Chinese social media platform Weibo, serves as a voice for those suffering during the pandemic, mediating between personal accounts, accounts of friends, family and those living in Wuhan during the pandemic. These flesh out how the virus has not only been disturbing for Chinese people’s lives but also disrupted the death rites and mourning rituals for those who have passed. Our article infuses a digital ontological reading with an anthropological twist that helps to understand how the diary mitigates the disturbances to mourning rituals inside and outside the confines of digital metaphysics. We argue that the digital diary mitigates these disruptions by allowing Chinese people to nourish their sorrow by identifying with the symbolic rites of passage and mourning rituals online at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan. In doing so, this article examines three stages of rite of passage, including separation, liminality and integration as they unfold in the diary, through which discourses and subjectivities based on collective and individual traumatic experiences are built, as a form of digital mourning that could reconcile both the official and the alternative voices of anonymous narratives about the handling of this crisis.

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The politics of care during COVID-19: The visibility of anti-virus measures in Wuhan

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Between Two Worlds: the Chinese Diaspora in France during Covid-19

Between Two Worlds: the Chinese Diaspora in France during Covid-19

COVID-19 Implications for China's National Security

The Rite of Passage and Digital Mourning in Fang Fang’sWuhan Diary

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