The Cultural Politics of National Tragedies and Personal Sacrifice
State Narratives of China’s ‘Ordinary Heroes’ of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22023751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Xie (0000-0001-8751-0510), Yunyun Zhou (0000-0002-7384-5640) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-29 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Made in China Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2206-9119 • E-ISSN: 2652-6352 |
| Publisher | ANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.22459/mic.06.01.2021.02 |
| OpenAlex | W3181283756 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
While the rest of the world is still battling the latest wave of COVID-19 and implementing lockdown measures to combat the spread of the virus, China has been celebrating its 'victory' over the pandemic since the end of February 2020, with Xinhua (2020) announcing a book praising the country's success in disease control to be published in six languages.Compared with the initial crisis being described as China's 'Chernobyl moment' (Shih 2020), at a time when criticism from ordinary citizens abounded, the current discursive space in China appears to be 24 MADE IN CHINA / 1, 2021
Art · China · Criticism · Development economics · Disease · Economics · Literature · Narrative · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Victory · History · Law · Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies · Medicine
Poets, What Can We Do?”
Cultural China 2020
Gendering National Sacrifices
Despicable ‘other’ and innocent ‘us’
Visual propaganda in chinese central and local news agencies
China’s Instagram war on Covid-19
Hair, machines, sanitary pads and diary
Negotiating with the Past
Together, We Achieve the China Dream
Who writes the pandemic? State power, individual subjectivity, and the history of the present in China’s Covid-19 response
Self-care interventions for social workers in China
Contested disaster nationalism in the digital age
Citizens’ strategic responses to affective governance in China
Celebrating funerals as weddings
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |