Belinda Kong

SARS Stories

Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Sinotheory
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781478025665
• ISBN-10: 1478025662
• Artikelnr.: 67981625

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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