COVID-19 and Political Polarization: Notes on Australia’s Chinese Communities

Autor: Mobo Gao
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, Vol 17, Iss 1-2 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1449-2490
DOI: 10.5130/pjmis.v17i1-2.7365
Popis: In this article I draw from my personal observations as a participant in two WeChat groups; a group with my university classmates most of whom are now residents of Australia, and the other a skilled migrant group based in South Australia. I explore the main narrative threads of these two groups in relation to their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic during the first half of 2020. I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic sharpened the political polarization that exists between denouncers of the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and their detractors, and also underlined particular moral dilemmas.grants from the PRC.
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