COVID-19在中国:想象与深度媒介化

IF 2.3 3区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES
Jeroen de Kloet
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我们怎样才能战胜看不见的病毒——一种只有借助精密设备才能看到的病毒?尽管如此,一种病毒还是成功地让世界停滞不前,冻结了我们的旅行,而且在撰写本文时(2021年7月),一种病毒已经导致全球400多万人死亡。此外,该病毒于2019年底在中国大陆首次爆发。这场看似又一场地方性的卫生危机,很快演变成一场全球大流行。自疫情开始以来,中国的角色发生了转变。最初,中国被认为是大流行的“发源地”,并因对病毒的来源和传播采取保密态度而受到批评。不久之后,中国抗击病毒的严厉措施遭到了其他地方,特别是西方媒体的怀疑,并被解读为其权威政权的标志。然而,在短短几个月的时间里,中国的病毒管理取得了让欧洲和美国黯然失色的成功,在国内引发了一种民族主义话语,中国共产党被其公民称赞为国家的守护者。当我考虑在2020年夏天编辑一份关于大流行的特刊时,我有疑虑:这不是太像利用当代,把危机变成出版机会吗?鉴于围绕这场大流行的新闻和学术论述都非常丰富,关于COVID-19还有什么可说的呢?然而,用John Nguyet Erni和Ted Striphas的话来说,
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COVID-19 in China: Imagination and deep mediatization
How can we combat the invisible – a virus one can only see with the aid of sophisticated equipment? A virus that has nevertheless managed to put the world on hold, freeze our travelling, and a virus that has killed, at the time of writing – July 2021 – over 4 million people worldwide. A virus, moreover, whose first recorded outbreak started in mainland China at the end of 2019. What seemed like yet another local health crisis soon morphed into a global pandemic. Since the start of the pandemic, China’s role has shifted. Initially, China was the assumed ‘origin’ of the pandemic, and was criticized for its secretive attitude about the source and spread of the virus. Soon after, China’s draconian measures to combat the virus were met with suspicion elsewhere, in particular in the Western media, and were read as a sign of its authoritative regime. Yet, within the timespan of a few months, China’s virus management scored containment successes that overshadowed those of Europe and the United States, feeding internally into a discourse of nationalism in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was praised by its citizenry as the guardian of the nation. When I considered editing a special issue on the pandemic during the summer of 2020, I had doubts: was it not too much like capitalizing on the contemporary, turning a crisis into a publication opportunity? And what more could be said about COVID-19, given the sheer abundance of both journalistic and academic discourses surrounding the pandemic? However, in the words of John Nguyet Erni and Ted Striphas,
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China Information
China Information AREA STUDIES-
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期刊介绍: China Information presents timely and in-depth analyses of major developments in contemporary China and overseas Chinese communities in the areas of politics, economics, law, ecology, culture, and society, including literature and the arts. China Information pays special attention to views and areas that do not receive sufficient attention in the mainstream discourse on contemporary China. It encourages discussion and debate between different academic traditions, offers a platform to express controversial and dissenting opinions, and promotes research that is historically sensitive and contemporarily relevant.
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