Social Contagion presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan.
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..
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.
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.
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.
Social Contagion presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan
