TY - GEN AU - LONGTAO He AU - JEAN Jason Allan AU - YIXI Lu AU - YANGU Pan TI - Exploring the social dynamics of public stigmatization in China of Wuhanese during the initial outbreak of COVID-19: a moral panic analysis PY - 2024/// KW - COVID-19 KW - CHINA KW - PUBLIC STIGMATIZATION N2 - During the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in China in 2019 and 2020, the Wuhanese suffered tremendous public stigmatization. Why and how did the general public in China develop such strong feelings against the Wuhanese? To address these questions and understand the social forces underlying this phenomenon, a moral panic analysis was conducted UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2023.2211021 ER -