Kong SARS Stories

Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2781-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Sinotheory

Belinda Kong examines the Chinese popular culture archive of the 2003 SARS pandemic, from music to television to humor, to show how Chinese people survived the pandemic through practices of community, care, and love rather than solely narrating pandemic life in terms of crisis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kong, Belinda

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Pandemic Ordinariness: Epidemic Romances and Female Sentiments 33
2. Pandemic Humor: Digital Prosociality for the Epidemic Socius 77
3. Pandemic Resilience: Deextinction and the Hong Kong Cantophone 112
4. Pandemic First Patients: Deperilizing the Anglophone SARS Archive 180
Afterword 238
Notes 241
Bibliography 267
Index 285

Über Autor(innen)

Belinda Kong is Professor of Asian Studies and English at Bowdoin College and author of Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square: The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture.