At the end of 2019 to the beginning of 2020, when the coronavirus
first emerged, Wuhan in China became the first city in the world
affected by this deadly disease. It then rapidly spread to the
entire country, and further on to Europe, America and the rest of
the world. During these strange times, we witness the emptiness of
streets, squares and cities everywhere; we are estranged from and
yet 'connected' to each other. As a response to the pandemic, Jiang
Jiehong convened in-conversation talks with figures from different
disciplines in the Chinese-speaking world, including anthropology,
architecture, art, curating, fashion film, literature, media,
museum, music and photography. The twelve high-profile participants
in these conversations are Xiang Biao, Zhang Peili, Pi Li, Zhang
Zikang, Gu Zheng, Li Lin, Zhang Zhen, Shu Kewen, Jiang Jun, Wang
Shouzhi, Chen Danqing and Zhu Zheqin. These conversations foster
new understandings of this present-day crisis; the threat of the
invisible, notions of distance and spatialization, separation and
isolation, communication and mobility, discipline and surveillance,
and community and collectiveness, as well as the increase in
conflicts and divisive voices between China and the world. At the
same time, these reflections give us the opportunity to re-examine
our past 'normality', and to project our future visions of a
post-COVID world. Readership will include those working and
studying in the humanities and specifically in the disciplines of
the interviewees, and those who have particular interests in
contemporary China. The Otherness of the Everyday is also of
interest to a more general audience who has experienced the
pandemic and is seeking innovative understandings of this global
crisis in human history.
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