Written by Dino Ge Zhang This essay is primarily concerned with WeChat groupchats as an epidemiological space. As a backdrop to this discussion, we must start with the statement that WeChat is not a platform of preference in China but…
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Written by Altman Yuzhu Peng With the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the world, public health sectors have been placed under the spotlight. We have witnessed growing political interference in recent medical research. In China, where the first known COVID-19 patient…
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Written by Sophie Xiaofei Guo The Taiwanese artist Pei-Ying Lin started her thought experiments about viruses as early as 2011. From Smallpox Syndrome (2012-2015), Tame is to Tame (2016) to her latest work Virophilia (2018-ongoing), Lin imagines an alternative future…
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Written by Emily Baum In the early days of the Covid-19 outbreak, the Chinese government sent hundreds of thousands of care packages to students studying overseas. Stuffed with packets of herbal capsules, face masks, and disinfectant wipes, the unexpected gifts…
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Written by Liz P. Y. Chee In my recently-published book Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China (Duke University Press, 2021) I’ve traced an aspect of Chinese medicine and pharmacology that has been surprisingly neglected despite its controversial character, or…
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Written by Editor Our eighth issue explores the cultural politics of medicine and public health in China. A year on from the outbreak of a global pandemic that continues to profoundly impact everyday life around the world, we asked our…
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