Everyday life in China’s post-epidemic era is restructured through routinized epidemic control. …
In June 1935, a famous medical journal in Shanghai, Yijie Chunqiu (醫界春秋, “Annals of medicine”) published a short essay called “Mahuang zhuan” (麻黃傳, “A biography of ephedra”). …
From the designers’ own perspective, ensuring equality, paying attention to diverse concerns from different groups, and preventing potentially adverse social effects should always be a priority in the designing process. …
The technological choices in the design of the tracing apps in different societies and countries are contingent upon specific needs and cultural and political environments, and show a strong tendency of path dependency. …
In the first article, we introduce the tracing apps in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Singapore as a set of comparative examples. …
On the evening of January 31, 2020 — the seventh day of the lunar new year — news broke and spread rapidly on the Chinese social media platform WeChat regarding a certain shuanghuanlian koufuye (双黄连口服液, hereafter SHL oral liquid) showing efficacy in inhibiting the “novel coronavirus pneumonia” (xinguan feiyan 新冠肺炎), which had come out of Wuhan and was wreaking havoc. …
In 1989, U.S. President George H. W. Bush went on an official visit to China just one month after assuming office. …
How can we balance the benefits and risks of such big-scale surveillance systems? This is a tricky problem. …
Hi-tech is often supported by usually invisible, manual, and exhausted workers whose work practice implies something far from hi-tech. …
Fueled by the pandemic during which people are more or less forced to conduct individual lives, it is no surprise that food exemplified by self-heated hotpot becomes so popular. …
