Open AccessWhat Use is Chinese Studies in a Pandemic?
Author(s) -
Chi Zhang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of the british association for chinese studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2048-0601
DOI - 10.51661/bjocs.v10i0.81
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , test (biology) , history , psychology , political science , medicine , virology , biology , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , paleontology
The ongoing, highly politicised COVID-19 puts Chinese studies to the test. Compared to hard sciences, Chinese studies seems to have lost its shine in search of an immediate cure. However, I argue that it is precisely in situations like this that Chinese studies should be reinvigorated for a number of reasons.