Abstract
This position paper stakes out a potential contribution from Chinese Studies for making sense of political claims about accountability for Covid-19, conspiracy theories, cover-ups, misinformation, public health responses, and vulnerabilities in societies. The broader picture is much more complex than implied in media coverage and official state sources which typically simplify and dramatise the claims with disregard for evidence or comparison of competing perspectives. By drawing on the discipline’s strengths in analysing contemporary China and its internal and external dynamics, Chinese studies can assist in critically examining the claims and their interpretive complexities, as well as the processes through which they have been conceptualised and have come to public attention, an explanatory model with considerable leverage for encouraging more meaningful dialogue.
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