{"title":"Logs in the Time of Coronavirus","authors":"H. Choy","doi":"10.1080/27683524.2022.2131179","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper researches the role of journal keeping in the time of coronavirus from China to America, focusing on mainland and overseas Chinese women's writings of this pandemic in the form of diary. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical tensions between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and United States of America (USA), this daily-based documentary genre appeared on the Internet and provided nuanced individual perspectives in contrast to the grand official narrative and stimulated heated debates. From Ai Xiaoming's \"Wuhan Diary” to Zhang Lan's \"New Yorkers in the Epidemic,” Dou Wanru's \"Notes on New York's Epidemic” and Wang Ruochong's \"New York Epidemic Diary,” then to Jiang Xue's \"Chang'an Decameron,” I explore how these literary logs have recorded everyday activities and emotional changes during the outbreak, what personal stories of the disadvantaged and marginalized told us about the human cost and social impacts of the disaster beyond the governments' grand narratives, and why they have become so popular and controversial. Relating the genre to gender, I select five women writers' diaries that provide their readers with feminine perspectives of the plight. The phenomenon is worth studying as it demonstrates diary-writing as therapy against the trauma of the plague. The multifaceted mode of these writings is made possible by a prosaic style that not only contains a variety of contents but also embraces the voices from all walks of life in different tones, including those of the women writers themselves that negotiate their gender as well as ethnic identity in the difficult time of COVID-19. © 2023 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.","PeriodicalId":29655,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Literature and Thought Today","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Chinese Literature and Thought Today","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2022.2131179","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ASIAN STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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冠状病毒时代的日志
本文研究了中国到美国的冠状病毒时期日记的作用,重点研究了大陆和海外华人女性以日记的形式对这场大流行的书写。在2019冠状病毒病大流行和中美地缘政治紧张局势的背景下,这种日常纪录片类型出现在互联网上,与宏大的官方叙事形成鲜明对比,提供了细致入微的个人视角,引发了激烈的辩论。从艾晓明的《武汉日记》到张兰的《疫情中的纽约人》,从窦万如的《纽约疫情笔记》到王若聪的《纽约疫情日记》,再到姜雪的《长安十日谈》,我将探讨这些文学日志如何记录疫情期间的日常活动和情绪变化,弱势群体和边缘群体的个人故事如何告诉我们,在政府的宏大叙事之外,灾难的人类成本和社会影响,以及为什么它们如此受欢迎和引起争议。将体裁与性别联系起来,我选择了五位女作家的日记,为读者提供了女性视角的困境。这一现象值得研究,因为它证明了写日记可以治疗鼠疫的创伤。这些作品的多面性是由一种平实的风格构成的,这种风格不仅包含了丰富的内容,而且以不同的语调囊括了各行各业的声音,包括女作家自己在新冠肺炎困难时期就性别和民族身份进行谈判的声音。©2023 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
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