[Commlist] New Book: Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis US–China Relations in the Age of Globalization

*Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and 
Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis US–China Relations in the Age of 
Globalization (https://msupress.org/9781611864922/pandemic-crossing/ 
<https://msupress.org/9781611864922/pandemic-crossing/>)*

Edited by Guobin Yang, Bingchun Meng, and Elaine J. Yuan

Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, nation states found new ways to assert 
power under the guise of public health, from closing or tightening 
borders to expanding the boundaries of acceptable citizen surveillance. 
As these controls increased in intensity, citizens’ passions to cross 
borders seemed to grow in proportion. Pandemic Crossings explores how 
these processes of boundary making and crossing, often mediated by 
digital technology despite inequity of access, had profound and often 
contradictory consequences on individual lives, national politics, and 
U.S.–China relations. This rich and geographically diverse collection of 
studies informed by everyday, individual experiences contribute new 
insights to the interplay between digital technologies and state 
governance during the covid-19 pandemic. It opens up new avenues of 
research not only on the covid-19 pandemic but also on global health 
crises more broadly.

*Table of Contents*

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ix Preface, Bingchun Meng, Guobin Yang, and Elaine J. Yuan

xxv Acknowledgments

*Part 1.**Governing with Digital Tools*

3             Infrastructures for the Public: The Institutional Contexts 
of the Applications of Digital Technology in the U.S. during the 
COVID-19 Pandemic, Elaine Yuan

25           Pandemic Infrastructure, Mediated Mobility, and Urban 
Governance in China, Yang Zhan

45           DingTalk and Chinese Digital Workplace Surveillance in 
Pandemic Times, Yizhou Xu

67           Access as Method: Hopes, Frictions, and Mediated 
Communication in a Remote   Disability Reading Group, Zihao Lin

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*Part 2. Making Sense of the Pandemic*

93           Chinese Students and Narratives of Freedom before and 
during the COVID-19, Yingyi Ma and Ning Zhan**

115        Cosmopolitan Imperative or Nationalist Sentiment? Mediated 
Experiences of Covid-19 Pandemic among Chinese Overseas Students, 
Bingchun Meng, Zifeng Chen, and Veronica Jingyi Wang

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137        Contesting for Consensus: Social Sentiment towardFellow 
Citizens' COVID-related Behavior in China, Yan Wang and Yuxi Zhang

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*Part 3.  Contesting over Narratives*

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167        Narrating the Nation during the Global Pandemic: The 
“K-Quarantine” and Biopolitical Nationalism in the Era of COVID-19, 
Ji-Hyun Ahn

189        What Motivated the Sharing of Disinformation about China and 
Covid-19? A Study of Social Media Users in Kenya and South Africa, 
Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales

213        China's Twitter Diplomacy: Crafting Narratives of COVID-19, 
Wendy Leutert and Nicholas Atkinson

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241        Contributors

247        Index


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