Wuhan Lockdown

This book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city's own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, the sociologist Guobin Yang vividly depicts how the city coped during the crisis.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Festivities, Interrupted
2. Road to Apocalypse
3. People’s War
4. Lockdown Diaries
5. Fire and Thunder
6. Civic Organizing
7. Game of Words
8. COVID Nationalism
9. Mourning and Remembering
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Center on Digital Culture and Society and serves as deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. His previous Columbia University Press books are The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (2016) and The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009).

Summary

This book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city’s own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, the sociologist Guobin Yang vividly depicts how the city coped during the crisis.

Additional text

A thorough account of the events leading to the Covid-19 lockdown in Wuhan, China, in early 2020, drawing from dozens of personal accounts ('lockdown diaries').

Product details

• Authors: Guobin Yang, Guobin (University of Pennsylvania) Yang, Yang Guobin
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780231200462
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20046-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; China, Diaries, letters & journals, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Infectious & contagious diseases, Sociology & anthropology, Society and culture: general, Diaries, letters and journals, Sociology and anthropology, Infectious and contagious diseases, Hubei