Issue #108 An Informal and Incomplete Journey

An Informal and Incomplete Journey

Xiaoyu Weng

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Film still of Wong Kar-Wai’s movie Happy Together (1997) starring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai.

Issue #108
April 2020










Notes
1

Slavoj Žižek, “My Dream of Wuhan,” Welt, January 22, 2020 .

2

See the Guggenheim website for information on the exhibition .

3

The timeline graph comes from this WeChat post . Other media outlets also analyzed the government’s mistake—for example .

4

Li Wenliang’s signed and fingerprinted “letter of admonition” is available in the public domain .

5

A translated version of the story can be read here: .There are various ways to translate “mantou,” but I prefer “steamed bun.”

6

Shijiazhuang Yiling Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd, “Li Yu, Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Traditional Chinese Medicine Lianhua Qingwen Plays an Important Role In Fighting Against COVID-19,” Associated Press, March 20, 2020 . See also .

7

Chenghao Ye et al., “Theoretical Study of the Anti-NCP Molecular Mechanism of Traditional Chinese Medicine Lianhua-Qingwen Formula (LQF),” chemrxiv.org, March 21, 2020 .

8

Wang Hui, The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity (Verso, 2011), 195–96.

9

In Xinhua News Agency’s collection of reportage on Xi Jinping’s speeches, this page talks about Chinese medicine .

10

See “Q&A on coronaviruses (COVID-19)” at the WHO website .

11

Quoted in Lung-Kee Sun, “To Be or Not to Be ‘Eaten’: Lu Xun’s Dilemma of Political Engagement,” Modern China 12, no. 4 (October 1986), 459–85.

12

Hou Hanrou, “The Spectacle of the Everyday,” curatorial text for the 10th Biennale de Lyon .

13

See the book here .

14

Scripps Research Institute, “COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic has a natural origin,” Science Daily, March 17, 2020 .

15

Guenter B. Risse, Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco’s Chinatown (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) 1–15.

16

Alain Badiou, “On the Epidemic Situation,” Verso blog, March 23, 2020 .

17

Walter Russell Meade, “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia,” Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2020 .

18

Marc Tracy, “Inside The Wall Street Journal, Tensions Rise Over ‘Sick Man’ China Headline,” New York Times, February 22, 2020 .

19

Aesop, “The Birds, the Beast, and the Bat,” Aesop’s Fables for Children (originally published 1919).