The Coronavirus

1. Front Matter

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2. Memoir and Reflection

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Arresting COVID-19: Perspectives from a Sino-US Joint Venture University

      • Denis Simon

      Pages 3-11

   3. Memory, Storytelling and GIS Digital Archive: Introducing the COVID-19 Memory Archival Project

      • Benjamin L. Bacon, Weijing Xu

      Pages 13-22

   4. Separate Realities: Being Wuhanese and American Throughout COVID-19

      • Yuexuan Chen

      Pages 23-31

   5. Observations on Wuhan Residents’ Diaries

      • Yanping Ni

      Pages 33-41

   6. On the Epistemic Condition of Pandemic in a Globalized Present

      • Zairong Xiang

      Pages 43-50

3. Context and Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. Historical Echoes

      • Nicole Elizabeth Barnes

      Pages 53-59

   3. Black and White Swans: Pandemics, Prognostications, and Preparedness

      • Carlos Rojas

      Pages 61-68

   4. The Information Politics of COVID-19 in China

      • Melanie Manion

      Pages 69-75

   5. The Political and Economic Consequences of COVID-19 for China

      • Andrew W. MacDonald

      Pages 77-86

This book describes and analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the relationship between the United States and China in its human, social and political dimensions. It does so through the experience of faculty and students at Duke University and Duke Kunshan University, a US-China joint venture university. The book reveals the intimate stories of Chinese people trapped in quarantine, situating these stories in a longer historical perspective of plagues and disease prevention in China. It describes the impact of the virus on the racialized perceptions of Chinese-Americans and Chinese students in America. Finally, it offers a preliminary assessment of the impact of the coronavirus on the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party, and on US-China relations. Featuring the work of artists, student journalists, historians, anthropologists and political scientists, this book presents a breadth of insights into the impact of COVID-19.  

• health humanities
• health and disease
• COVID-19
• health policy
• health policy
• public health
• Chinese media
• Wuhan
• history of epidemics
• human-animal relations

• Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China

  James Miller

James Miller is associate dean for interdisciplinary strategy, co-director of the Humanities Research Center, and professor of humanities at Duke Kunshan University. He is the author or editor of six books including, most recently, China’s Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future (Columbia University Press, 2017).

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