Epidemic
Culture
[Video] Yingge, 'Heroes' Song': China's ancient warrior dance
With painted faces and elaborate costumes, Yingge (英歌) performers stride and dance with power and vigour to the rhythmic beat of pounding drums. The fusion of opera, dance and martial arts culminates in an artistically distinct performance that is a part of China's intangible cultural heritage.
Yi Jina
23 Feb 2024
Society
Annihilation or protracted war - which is our best bet against Covid-19?
Professor Deng Xize of Sichuan University says that months into the fight against the coronavirus, strategies that countries are adopting are coalescing around two main threads - a war of annihilation or a protracted war. He cautions that these conflicting approaches are bound to generate risks on a global scale. Not only will the history of some countries take a different turn, international dynamics will also be altered. For the individual, it may become a gamble of health and luck.
Deng Xize
19 Mar 2020
Society
Official's call for city of Wuhan to express gratitude backfires
Angry netizens suggest that Wuhan party secretary Wang Zhonglin's call for gratitude for the CCP shows where officials' allegiance truly lies. The testy mood of the public portends the zero tolerance of further grandstanding behaviour.
Yu Zeyuan
09 Mar 2020
Society
Chinese novelist Yan Lianke: When the epidemic ends, let our memories live
In his first creative writing class of the semester, acclaimed Chinese author Yan Lianke addresses the Covid-19 milieu of the times. He urges his students to remember what they have seen and heard as memory separates man from beast; memory begets truth. He says if one cannot speak loudly or even whisper, at least remember.
Yan Lianke
09 Mar 2020
History
[Photo story] The Manchurian plague outbreak and the Malayan doctor Wu Lien-teh
The current coronavirus outbreak is not the first epidemic in China. Photo collector and Taiwanese writer Hsu Chung-mao, looks at a plague outbreak in Manchuria over a century ago and the role played by a Malaya-born doctor and Nobel Prize nominee.
Hsu Chung-mao
18 Feb 2020
