TY - BOOK AU - LIU Jiacheng TI - From social drama to political performance: China's multi-front combat with the Covid-19 epidemic PY - 2020/// KW - CHINA KW - POLITICS KW - COVID-19 EPIDEMIC N2 - It argues that the epidemic outbreak in late December 2019 initiated a highly contested social drama, in which loyalty was tested, political order questioned, and ideological crisis made visible. The numerous netizens and residents drew on a wide-ranging repertoire of discourses, symbols, and narratives to heighten public spectacles of suffering and sympathy, which placed extensive blame on the lies, negligence, and censorship of the government UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2020.1803094 ER -