The pandemic : perspectives on Asia / edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chaturvedi, Vinayak, editor.

Series:

Asia shorts ; no. 7.

Asia shorts ; number 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 (Disease)--Asia.

COVID-19 (Disease).

Asia.

Physical Description:

183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, MI, USA : Association for Asian Studies, [2020]

Summary:

"This collection of essays provides analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia. It covers the first phase of the pandemic that will help future scholars to contextualize the history of the present. It includes interpretations by leading scholars in anthropology, food studies, history, media studies, political science, and visual studies, who examine the political, social, economic, and cultural impact of COVID-19 in China, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Pandemic India: Coronavirus and the Uses of History / David Arnold

2. Viral Reflections: Placing China in Global Health Histories / Mary Augusta Brazelton

3. The Media Spectacle of a Techno-City: COVID-19 and the South Korean Experience of the State of Emergency / Jaeho Kang

4. Masks, Science, and Being Foreign: Japan during the Initial Phase of COVID-19 / Alexis Dudden

5. Olympic Recoveries / Kate McDonald

6. The Goddess and the Virus / Sumathi Ramaswamy

7. "Responding to an epidemic requires a compassionate State": How has the Indian State been doing in the time of COVID-19? / John Harriss

8. Inequality, Technocracy, and National Healthcare: Taiwan and COVID-19 / Catherine Liu

9. Racing the Pandemic: Anti-Asian Racism amid COVID-19 / Christine R. Yano

10. Chinese Food during COVID-19 in China and the United States: A Tale of Two Countries / Clare Gordon Bettencourt

11. The Virulence of Hindutva / Manan Ahmed Asif.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: The pandemic

ISBN:

9781952636172

1952636175

OCLC:

1226963218

Publisher Number:

99987131241