Graves in One's Heart

Grassroots Memorialization of Dr. Li Wenliang during the Covid-19 Outbreak in China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2818639
AutoresZiying You, Qiaoyun Zhang (0000-0001-8072-5973)
Ano2022
Volume135
Fascículo535
Páginas3-25
Data de publicação2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of American Folklore (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882
EditoraUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/15351882.135.535.01
OpenAlexW4210479217
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas21

This article studies how Chinese internet users mobilized online to participate in actions and articulate social and political disaffection during the COVID-19 outbreak in China after the death of Dr. Li Wenliang in early 2020. Dr. Li saved many people's lives by sending early warnings in late 2019 and ultimately died of the new coronavirus on February 6, 2020. When collectively mourning Dr. Li's death, Chinese people commemorated him as a folk hero, which worked to build a "virtual utopia" through which they could go through the crisis together. This process illustrates the changing tension between state control and individual agency within particular contexts during the COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020 in China

Art · China · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Disease · Grassroots · HERO · Literature · Memorialization · Outbreak · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State of exception · Global Security and Public Health · History · Law · Medicine · Virology