Social Contagion: And Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China

By Chuang and Chuang Collective

Social Contagion presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Chuang, a collective of communists living inside and outside China, chronicle the struggles of everyday people caught between a lethal virus and a repressive state. They argue that China's rapid but fragile economic growth has created the social and biological conditions for new and deadly viruses, of which COVID-19 was merely the latest iteration. Through on-the-ground interviews, reports, and analysis, Social Contagion gives us a piercing portrait of the simultaneously draconian and ineffectual response of the Chinese state, as well as the self-organizing survival strategies of ordinary Chinese workers. Chuang concludes that the pandemic has enabled a new mode of counterinsurgent governance, one rooted in decades of institutional experimentation and an emergent theory of statecraft.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882860070
• ISBN13: 9780882860077
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Charles Kerr
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.6" x 9.3"